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ABI 4.x introduced the chained metadata format and made it the
only one possible. There are cases, however, where the old
format is preferred - mostly to make interoperation with VFs
using ABI 3.x easier for the datapath. In ABI 5.x we allowed
for more flexibility by selecting the metadata format based
on capabilities. The default was left to non-chained.
In case of fallback traffic, there is no capability telling the
driver there may be chained metadata. With a very stripped-
-down FW the default old metadata format would be selected
making the driver drop all fallback traffic.
This patch changes the default selection in the driver. It
should not hurt with old firmwares, because if they don't
advertise RSS they will not produce metadata anyway. New
firmwares advertising ABI 5.x, however, can depend on the
driver defaulting to chained format.
Fixes:
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| arch | ||
| block | ||
| certs | ||
| crypto | ||
| Documentation | ||
| drivers | ||
| firmware | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.