Thread (34 messages) 34 messages, 4 authors, 2015-07-13

Re: [PATCH v2 00/22] FUJITSU Extended Socket network device driver

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hidden>
Date: 2015-06-24 13:41:17
Also in: linux-acpi, platform-driver-x86

On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:52:31 +0900
Taku Izumi [off-list ref] wrote:
This patchsets adds FUJITSU Extended Socket network device driver.
Extended Socket network device is a shared memory based high-speed network
interface between Extended Partitions of PRIMEQUEST 2000 E2 series.

You can get some information about Extended Partition and Extended
Socket by referring the following manual.

http://globalsp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/Publications/public/CA92344-0537.pdf
  3.2.1 Extended Partitioning
  3.2.2 Extended Socket

v1 -> v2:
  - Location change
    drivers/platform/x86 => driver/net
Could/should this driver be placed under driver/net/ethernet/fujitsu ??

You are using Ethernet addresses but they are kind of special, always
02:00:00:00:00:xx which is hard-coded... maybe I misunderstand the
code/hw and it is not Ethernet?

[...]
 drivers/net/fjes/Makefile       |   31 +
 drivers/net/fjes/fjes.h         |   77 +++
 drivers/net/fjes/fjes_ethtool.c |  135 ++++
 drivers/net/fjes/fjes_hw.c      | 1122 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/fjes/fjes_hw.h      |  333 ++++++++++
 drivers/net/fjes/fjes_main.c    | 1397 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/fjes/fjes_regs.h    |  142 ++++
 9 files changed, 3246 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/fjes/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/fjes/fjes.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/fjes/fjes_ethtool.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/fjes/fjes_hw.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/fjes/fjes_hw.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/fjes/fjes_main.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/fjes/fjes_regs.h


-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
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