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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-09-18 19:27:40 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-09-18 19:27:40 -0700 |
| commit | 89f4b9a6e4c60d005c015b170508adb9978d0fd4 (patch) | |
| tree | 7c23f956f5ea2873d7483b6aa1d91679a51d93a6 /MAINTAINERS | |
| parent | e366fa435032db1ce1538a2c029714666985dd48 (diff) | |
| parent | 98674ebec892a77c06b2b107dd417f3d43a6637d (diff) | |
| download | linux-89f4b9a6e4c60d005c015b170508adb9978d0fd4.tar.gz | |
Merge branch '40GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queue
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. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 285bf51637d7..7233a9ed0f5b 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -7348,7 +7348,7 @@ F: Documentation/networking/ixgb.txt F: Documentation/networking/ixgbe.txt F: Documentation/networking/ixgbevf.txt F: Documentation/networking/i40e.txt -F: Documentation/networking/i40evf.txt +F: Documentation/networking/iavf.txt F: Documentation/networking/ice.txt F: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ F: drivers/net/ethernet/intel/*/ |