Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] vmxnet3: upgrade to version 4

From: David Miller
Date: Thu May 28 2020 - 14:07:49 EST


From: Ronak Doshi <doshir@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 18:54:22 -0700

> vmxnet3 emulation has recently added several new features which includes
> offload support for tunnel packets, support for new commands the driver
> can issue to emulation, change in descriptor fields, etc. This patch
> series extends the vmxnet3 driver to leverage these new features.
>
> Compatibility is maintained using existing vmxnet3 versioning mechanism as
> follows:
> - new features added to vmxnet3 emulation are associated with new vmxnet3
> version viz. vmxnet3 version 4.
> - emulation advertises all the versions it supports to the driver.
> - during initialization, vmxnet3 driver picks the highest version number
> supported by both the emulation and the driver and configures emulation
> to run at that version.
...

Series applied, thank you.