[ewg] Re: [GIT PULL ofed-1.4 ofed_kernel] - cxgb3 backports for ofed-1.4

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Steve Wise wrote:
> Vlad,
> 
> Please pull from:
> 
> git://git.openfabrics.org/~swise/ofed-1.4.git ofed_kernel
> 
> There are 20 commits that add the backports for cxgb3, one for each 
> kernerl.  They also create new include files in kernel_addons/backports 
> to provide backports for net_namespace and a few other needed functions. 
> This results in removing 4 kernel_patches/backports/* files for the 
> core, iw_cxgb3, and rds modules.  Namely these patches are no longer 
> needed and are removed:
> 
> cma_to_2_6_24.patch
> addr_to_2_6_24.patch
> iwch_cm_to_2_6_24.patch
> rds_to_2_6_24.patch
> 
> New kernel_addon/backports/* changes:
> 
> - add net_namespace.h so modules that include it won't break
> - add backport macro to remove the net namespace parameter from:
>    - ip_dev_find()
>    - route_ouput_flow() and route_output_key()
>    - dev_get_by_name()
> - add is_vmalloc_addr() backport function
> - add vlan_dev_info() backport function
> 
> I built these against a handful of the backport kernels.  I didn't do 
> the cross platforms builds.  So please lemme know if anything still 
> breaks in the cxgb3 code.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Steve.
> 

Done,

Regards,
Vladimir