Re: [RFC net-next] iavf: refactor plan proposal

2021-03-09 Thread Leon Romanovsky
On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 09:11:46PM -0800, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > > > 3) Plan is to make the "new" iavf driver the default iavf once > > >extensive regression testing can be completed. > > > a. Current proposal is to make CONFIG_IAVF have a sub-option > > > C

Re: [RFC net-next] iavf: refactor plan proposal

2021-03-09 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 16:28:58 -0800 Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We plan to refactor the iavf module and would appreciate community and > > maintainer feedback on our plans. We want to do this to realize the > > usefulness of the common code module for multipl

Re: [RFC net-next] iavf: refactor plan proposal

2021-03-09 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > 3) Plan is to make the "new" iavf driver the default iavf once > >extensive regression testing can be completed. > > a. Current proposal is to make CONFIG_IAVF have a sub-option > >CONFIG_IAVF_V2 that lets the user adopt the new code, > >without c

Re: [RFC net-next] iavf: refactor plan proposal

2021-03-09 Thread Jakub Kicinski
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 16:28:58 -0800 Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > Hello, > > We plan to refactor the iavf module and would appreciate community and > maintainer feedback on our plans. We want to do this to realize the > usefulness of the common code module for multiple drivers. This > proposal aims to

Re: [RFC net-next] iavf: refactor plan proposal

2021-03-08 Thread Leon Romanovsky
On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 04:28:58PM -0800, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > Hello, > > We plan to refactor the iavf module and would appreciate community and > maintainer feedback on our plans. We want to do this to realize the > usefulness of the common code module for multiple drivers. This > proposal

[RFC net-next] iavf: refactor plan proposal

2021-03-08 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
Hello, We plan to refactor the iavf module and would appreciate community and maintainer feedback on our plans. We want to do this to realize the usefulness of the common code module for multiple drivers. This proposal aims to avoid disrupting current users. The steps we plan are something like