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Or Gerlitz says: This series is essentially a cleanup to align with the rest of the NIC switchdev drivers and make us more robust and clear/n: currently the PF netdev serves as the mlx5 e-switch uplink netdev representor when going into switchdev mode and back as plain NIC netdev when going out. This causes some irregularities and misc troubles. Move to use dedicated uplink rep, as we have for the VF vports. The uplink rep netdev does has sysfs link and supports the sriov vf mac ndo, these two are in use by libvirt and other orchestrators, It also has richer ethtool support to allow controlling the port link & mtu along with supporting dcb and plugging into the mlx5 lag logic. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAABAgAGBQJcF/MBAAoJEEg/ir3gV/o+apkIAKVeB/ha8qiY+9ntA9B8HVxO cYb+fv4+DuYjTg/nN5QdYSAisN4SwFDA5ukz/ckr6XwV65EgTjAtlon/fHg/rDyz YT3dJRP9yjNXKxRvxa0K4PmTasmXGXzaJzsXYemHsfCDdnkNknZsqA+yoNe+2c40 HoNsdy/Pvr18PjzYtpX0BiuSjH623daBmdFH0o+rwuwsApkAUlBJfosTg/7xyU7v TAjy8S1HCloJ7OAjOlzXVmYr65sAlQoFr860vLDQ7Og7JemxjSXQ+AdNb6mSAvZ5 LBEvCA3G5tb4OkFX+1i/alxOcuG8/FoO+O3ZQWve1DNxoS76po851bgHXIdZCPg= =pqTq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'mlx5-uplink-rep-2018-12-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux Saeed Mahameed: ==================== mlx5-uplink-rep-2018-12-15 Or Gerlitz says: This series is essentially a cleanup to align with the rest of the NIC switchdev drivers and make us more robust and clear/n: currently the PF netdev serves as the mlx5 e-switch uplink netdev representor when going into switchdev mode and back as plain NIC netdev when going out. This causes some irregularities and misc troubles. Move to use dedicated uplink rep, as we have for the VF vports. The uplink rep netdev does has sysfs link and supports the sriov vf mac ndo, these two are in use by libvirt and other orchestrators, It also has richer ethtool support to allow controlling the port link & mtu along with supporting dcb and plugging into the mlx5 lag logic. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.