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| author | Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2016-07-19 11:54:16 +1000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-07-19 20:49:16 -0700 |
| commit | 2d283bdd079c0ad4da020bbc9e9c2a4280823098 (patch) | |
| tree | 43c0b7f25a2ac0684448dfd776ef56358332254e /net/ncsi/Kconfig | |
| parent | 5e31c7019f08e85d5c285befe30620f7291b4ad3 (diff) | |
net/ncsi: Resource management
NCSI spec (DSP0222) defines several objects: package, channel, mode,
filter, version and statistics etc. This introduces the data structs
to represent those objects and implement functions to manage them.
Also, this introduces CONFIG_NET_NCSI for the newly implemented NCSI
stack.
* The user (e.g. netdev driver) dereference NCSI device by
"struct ncsi_dev", which is embedded to "struct ncsi_dev_priv".
The later one is used by NCSI stack internally.
* Every NCSI device can have multiple packages simultaneously, up
to 8 packages. It's represented by "struct ncsi_package" and
identified by 3-bits ID.
* Every NCSI package can have multiple channels, up to 32. It's
represented by "struct ncsi_channel" and identified by 5-bits ID.
* Every NCSI channel has version, statistics, various modes and
filters. They are represented by "struct ncsi_channel_version",
"struct ncsi_channel_stats", "struct ncsi_channel_mode" and
"struct ncsi_channel_filter" separately.
* Apart from AEN (Asynchronous Event Notification), the NCSI stack
works in terms of command and response. This introduces "struct
ncsi_req" to represent a complete NCSI transaction made of NCSI
request and response.
link: https://www.dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP0222_1.1.0.pdf
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ncsi/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ncsi/Kconfig | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ncsi/Kconfig b/net/ncsi/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..08a8a6031fd7 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/ncsi/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# +# Configuration for NCSI support +# + +config NET_NCSI + bool "NCSI interface support" + depends on INET + ---help--- + This module provides NCSI (Network Controller Sideband Interface) + support. Enable this only if your system connects to a network + device via NCSI and the ethernet driver you're using supports + the protocol explicitly. |