[SCSI] cnic: Add new Broadcom CNIC driver.
authorMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Tue, 9 Jun 2009 01:14:43 +0000 (18:14 -0700)
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:22:42 +0000 (10:22 -0500)
commita463696039f7097ce87c21db3cf5c16cdcb3850d
tree3308681e117008282fd73a224215e0aab173262e
parent4edd473f208cff77ce1f7ef26d5a41f31fa198e0
[SCSI] cnic: Add new Broadcom CNIC driver.

The CNIC driver controls BNX2 hardware rings and resources used by
iSCSI.  Most hardware resources for iSCSI are separate from those
used for ethernet networking.

iSCSI uses a separate MAC address and IP address.  The CNIC driver
creates a UIO interface to handle the non-offloaded packets such as
ARP, etc in userspace.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
drivers/net/Kconfig
drivers/net/Makefile
drivers/net/cnic.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/net/cnic.h [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/net/cnic_defs.h [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/net/cnic_if.h [new file with mode: 0644]