In order for VFs to work, current implementation demands that the VF's requried storm firmware would be exactly the version that was loaded by the PF, which is a very harsh requirement. This patch series is intended to relax this - the recently submitted firmware is intended to be forward/backward compatible in its fastpath [slowpath is configured by PF on behalf of VF], and so VFs would only be required of having the same major faspath HSI in order to work.
Most of the other patches in this series extend current forward compatibilty of driver to reduce chance of breaking PF/VF compatibility in the future. A few are unrelated IOV changes. Dave, Please consider applying these to 'net-next'. Thanks, Yuval Yuval Mintz (6): qed: Relax VF firmware requirements qed: PF-VF resource negotiation qed: Make PF more robust against malicious VF qed: Move doorbell calculation from VF to PF qed: PF enforce MAC limitation of VFs qed: PF to reply to unknown messages drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_sriov.c | 488 +++++++++++++++++++++------- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_sriov.h | 9 +- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_vf.c | 95 ++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_vf.h | 13 +- 4 files changed, 456 insertions(+), 149 deletions(-) -- 1.9.3
