1. 19 Sep, 2018 1 commit
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge branch '40GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queue · 89f4b9a6
      David S. Miller authored
      Jeff Kirsher says:
      
      ====================
      40GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2018-09-18
      
      This series contains changes to i40evf so that it becomes a more
      generic virtual function driver for current and future silicon.
      
      While doing the rename of i40evf to a more generic name of iavf,
      we also put the driver on a severe diet due to how much of the
      code was unneeded or was unused.  The outcome is a lean and mean
      virtual function driver that continues to work on existing 40GbE
      (i40e) virtual devices and prepped for future supported devices,
      like the 100GbE (ice) virtual devices.
      
      This solves 2 issues we saw coming or were already present, the
      first was constant code duplication happening with i40e/i40evf,
      when much of the duplicate code in the i40evf was not used or was
      not needed.  The second was to remove the future confusion of why
      future VF devices that were not considered "40GbE" only devices
      were supported by i40evf.
      
      The thought is that iavf will be the virtual function driver for
      all future devices, so it should have a "generic" name to properly
      represent that it is the VF driver for multiple generations of
      devices.
      
      The last patch in this series is unreleated to the iavf conversion
      and just has to do with a MODULE_LICENSE correction.
      
      Known Caveats:
      Existing user space configurations may have to change, but the module
      alias in patch 1 helps a bit here.
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      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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