ixgbevf: Mailbox communication
authorGreg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Sat, 9 Jan 2010 02:23:50 +0000 (02:23 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:34:21 +0000 (13:34 -0800)
commitcbf698dbba25741ee1b2e734a6dd4f3070a1706f
tree21783a809a3b7ed5a361264236d3310aea8d71a6
parent3047f90bd515b38e62094eff90b299f379ab7243
ixgbevf: Mailbox communication

The 82599 virtual function device and the master 82599 physical function
device implement a mailbox utility for communication between the devices
using some SRAM scratch memory and a doorbell/answering mechanism enabled
via interrupt and/or polling.  This C module and accompanying header
file implement the base functions for use of this feature.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ixgbevf/mbx.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/net/ixgbevf/mbx.h [new file with mode: 0644]