[ofa-general] FW: QLogic vNIC Kernel Submission

[John Russo]

It looks as if my original email was "scrubbed" before it made the mailing list so I am resending it...

QLogic has been attempting to submit our virtual NIC (vNIC) driver to the Linux kernel for several months.  We have made changes to the code based on the feedback we have received over four rounds of submissions. Among the feedback we received during this process was a request to alter our code to use a single value per file for configuration of our driver through sysfs interface.  After spending much time and effort to complete this change to our design we re-submitted the driver only to receive a response suggesting that we change once again from this interface to a different API interface called rtnl_link.  Needless to say I am very frustrated with this process. This new API interface would require substantial changes to our code.

QLogic has met the initial request to move to a single valued sysfs interface and I would hope that this new request will be waived and will not be a roadblock to inclusion of our driver to the kernel.