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    s390/qeth: add basic VNICC support · a45b3faf
    Hans Wippel authored
    VNIC Characteristics (VNICC) are features of HiperSockets that define
    how packets are handled by the underlying network hardware. For example,
    if the VNICC flooding is configured on a qeth device, ethernet frames to
    unknown destination MAC addresses are received.
    
    Currently, there is support for seven VNICCs: flooding, multicast
    flooding, receive broadcast, learning, takeover learning, takeover
    setvmac, bridge invisible. Also, six IPA commands exist for configuring
    VNICCs on a qeth device: query characteristics, query commands, enable
    characteristic, disable characteristic, set timeout, get timeout.
    
    This patch adds the basic code infrastructure for VNICC support to qeth.
    It allows querying VNICC support from the underlying hardware. To this
    end, it adds:
    
    * basic message formats for IPA commands
    * basic data structures
    * basic error handling
    * query characteristics IPA command support
    
    The query characteristics IPA command allows requesting the currently
    supported and currently enabled VNIC characteristics from the underlying
    hardware.
    
    Support for the other IPA commands and for the configuration of VNICCs
    is added in follow-up patches together with the respective user
    interface functions.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Wippel <hwippel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJulian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJulian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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