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vNIC is a PCIe-side abstraction NFP firmwares supported by this driver use. It was initially meant to represent a device port and therefore a netdev but today should be thought of as a way of grouping descriptor rings and associated state. Advanced apps will have vNICs without netdevs and ports without a vNIC (using representors instead). Make sure code refers to vNICs as vNICs and not ports or netdevs. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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.