Merge branch '10GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queue
Jeff Kirsher says:
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10GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2018-08-28
This series contains updates to ixgbe and ixgbevf only.
Sebastian adds support for firmware NVM recovery mode, which logs a
message when errors are detected and un-registers the device. Also
fixed RSS type recognition with VF to VF communication.
Shannon Nelson implements IPsec hardware offload for VF devices in
Intel's 10GbE x540 family of Ethernet devices.
The IPsec HW offload feature has been in the x540/Niantic family of
network devices since their release in 2009, but there was no Linux
kernel support for the offload until 2017. After the XFRM code added
support for the offload last year, the HW offload was added to the ixgbe
PF driver.
Since the related x540 VF device uses same setup as the PF for implementing
the offload, adding the feature to the ixgbevf seemed like a good idea.
In this case, the PF owns the device registers, so the VF simply packages
up the request information into a VF<->PF message and the PF does the
device configuration.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
