1. Feature Overview: a. Name of feature: Update enic driver to the latest version enic-1.4.1.1 b. Feature Description Bug fixes and updates to enic driver. We recommend that our partners always update to the latest enic driver version. 2. Feature Details: a. Architectures: 32-bit x86 64-bit Intel EM64T/AMD64 : b. Red Hat Bugzilla Dependencies: c. Drivers or hardware dependencies: d. Upstream acceptance information: This driver has already been accepted by the netdev maintainers and applied to net-next-2.6 kernel. Update Summary: 01/10 - Feature Add: Replace LRO with GRO 02/10 - Bug Fix: Change hardware ingress vlan rewrite mode 03/10 - Use a lighter reset operation for enic devices 04/10 - Clean up: Add wrapper routines for firmware devcmd calls 05/10 - Use (netdev|dev|pr)_<level> macro helpers for logging 06/10 - Add new firmware devcmds 07/10 - Use receive queue buffer blocks of 32/64 entries 08/10 - Feature Add: Add loopback capability to enic devices 09/10 - Bug Fix: Handle surprise hardware removals 10/10 - Clean ups Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <scofeldm> Signed-off-by: Vasanthy Kolluri <vkolluri> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu> git tree log: $ git log --pretty=oneline drivers/net/enic 29046f9b1e36f6e3332ce2d8e366005fd177b37a enic: Clean ups 506e1198413d28446f9a98792b2b38b6bf5f8295 enic: Bug Fix: Handle surprise hardware removals 1825aca667196f75b193e2d509ea96ffdc8db0ca enic: Feature Add: Add loopback capability to enic devices b5bab85c15ed3d1ae7f917a7c077086ac6c04572 enic: Use receive queue buffer blocks of 32/64 entries 70feadf36df94dc0dc2f32fec4c131ecd75344f2 enic: Add new firmware devcmds a7a79debcca02fbf908c0abed8d8fb25d0e51b48 enic: Use (netdev|dev|pr)_<level> macro helpers for logging 383ab92f11dd78d365ed05cf4d83ca2acc069a1f enic: Clean up: Add wrapper routines for firmware devcmd calls 99ef563901a18d44a6c2eadd2b958e2e83aeca51 enic: Use a lighter reset operation for enic devices f8cac14acff870203ea7f61f1a92c5486d1774fa enic: Bug Fix: Change hardware ingress vlan rewrite mode 88132f55d74fdd97a7d459007b2bbb59e850f8c0 enic: Feature Add: Replace LRO with GRO e. External links: Patch Series: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127741255511742&w=2 Patches: 01/10) http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127741257211772&w=2 02/10) http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127741259711821&w=2 03/10) http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127741260611852&w=2 04/10) http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127741262111856&w=2 05/10) http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127741266111913&w=2 06/10) http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127741270811978&w=2 07/10) http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127741271611990&w=2 08/10) http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127741272512023&w=2 09/10) http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127741273412033&w=2 10/10) http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=127741275112063&w=2 f. Severity (U,H,M,L): High (required for Hardware Enablement) g. Target Release Date: 3. Business Justification: a. Why is this feature needed? For bug fixes and enhancements to Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC driver b. What hardware does this enable? Cisco's VIC Ethernet NIC included with Cisco's UCS blade server product c. Forecast, impact on revenue? d. Any configuration info? e. Are there other dependencies (drivers). 4. Primary contact at Red Hat, email, phone (chat) Andrius T. Benokraitis andriusb 5. Primary contact at Partner, email, phone (chat) Vasanthy Kolluri vkolluri 408-387-6014
Closing this as a dupe of the original 1.3.1.1 request, I don't think work as begun so let's just use that one bugzilla for this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 568111 ***