Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Jun 2016 22:37:27 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/7] vmxnet3: upgrade to version 3 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:51:52 -0700
> vmxnet3 emulation has recently added several new features which includes > support for new commands the driver can issue to emulation, change in > descriptor fields etc. This patch series extends the vmxnet3 driver to > leverage these new features. > > Compatibility is maintained using existing vmxnet3 versioning mechanism as > follows: > - new features added to vmxnet3 emulation are associated with new vmxnet3 > version viz. vmxnet3 version 3. > - emulation advertises all the versions it supports to the driver. > - during initialization, vmxnet3 driver picks the highest version number > supported by both the emulation and the driver and configures emulation > to run at that version. > > In particular, following changes are introduced: ...
Series applied, thanks.
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