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qed: Bulletin and Link
authorYuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Wed, 11 May 2016 13:36:17 +0000 (16:36 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 12 May 2016 04:04:07 +0000 (00:04 -0400)
commit15977b6ab5a3b79d3226ea0d18d87edfa9bd91f4
tree73d6637c437ab59c4fa0b5bf450a2fdb8cc5a675
parentb7f1c438dc048b283b46769d35fd80d1276cdcca
qed: Bulletin and Link

Up to this point, VF and PF communication always originates from VF.
As a result, VF cannot be notified of any async changes, and specifically
cannot be informed of the current link state.

This introduces the bulletin board, the mechanism through which the PF
is going to communicate async notifications back to the VF. basically,
it's a well-defined structure agreed by both PF and VF which the VF would
continuously poll and into which the PF would DMA messages when needed.
[Bulletin board is actually allocated and communicated in previous patches
but never before used]

Based on the bulletin infrastructure, the VF can query its link status
and receive said async carrier changes.

Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_sriov.c
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_sriov.h
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_vf.c
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_vf.h