Neterion: Driver help file
authorRamkrishna Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com>
Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:14:23 +0000 (18:14 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 2 Apr 2009 07:33:39 +0000 (00:33 -0700)
commit5adfb64bdd4eee07e0677cbad12a2f80fecc6715
tree9d188748764841ed15d54a11c16aefaadb408670
parent7e765cb4a07356e4f01cc57959c3c798a586f749
Neterion: Driver help file

- vxge driver help text file.

- No change from previous submission.

- Changes in previous submissions -
  Removed the performance tuning section with instructions to disable
  time stamps and change sysctl settings - Reported by Dave Miller
  General clean up.
 - Removed tx/rx_pause, exec_mode, tx_steering_type, rx_steering_type, gro,
   intr_type, rx & tx max_indicate_pkts and exec_mode loadable parameters. The
   driver default settings work well in most if not all cases. Another patch
   to configure these parameters with ethtool will be released in the future -
   Reported by Stephen Hemminger.
- Incorporated following fixes based on comments from Ben Hutchings
        Removed references to earlier kernel versions.
        Removed sections that are similar for all drivers -
                Load/Unload
                Identifying the adapter/interface
                Boot time configuration
        Removed loadable parameter -
                NAPI - Napi is always enabled.
                rx_steering_type & ring_blocks - The driver default settings
                work well in most if not all cases. Another patch to configure
                these parameters with ethtool will be released in the future.
        Removed ethtool support section - No need to duplicate ethtool
                docs here.
        Removed Known Issue on SUSE 9 - Doesn't apply when using a
                current kernel.
        Removed Common Problems section - These don't apply to in-tree modules.
        Removed Available Downloads section - Not sure this belongs in-tree.
        Removed Copyright information - This notice doesn't belong in
                the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Sivakumar Subramani <sivakumar.subramani@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: Rastapur Santosh <santosh.rastapur@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkrishna Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/networking/vxge.txt [new file with mode: 0644]