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Ivan Mikhaylov 205b95fe65 net/ncsi: add get MAC address command to get Intel i210 MAC address
This patch adds OEM Intel GMA command and response handler for it.

Signed-off-by: Brad Ho <Brad_Ho@phoenix.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Mikhaylov <i.mikhaylov@yadro.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210830171806.119857-2-i.mikhaylov@yadro.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2021-09-01 17:18:56 -07:00
Ivan Mikhaylov abd2fddc94 net/ncsi: add NCSI Intel OEM command to keep PHY up
This allows to keep PHY link up and prevents any channel resets during
the host load.

It is KEEP_PHY_LINK_UP option(Veto bit) in i210 datasheet which
block PHY reset and power state changes.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Mikhaylov <i.mikhaylov@yadro.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2021-07-08 14:16:39 -07:00
Zheng Yongjun 4fb3ebbf7e net/ncsi: Fix spelling mistakes
Fix some spelling mistakes in comments:
constuct  ==> construct
chanels  ==> channels
Detination  ==> Destination

Signed-off-by: Zheng Yongjun <zhengyongjun3@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2021-06-07 14:08:30 -07:00
Bhaskar Chowdhury 195a8ec403 ncsi: internal.h: Fix a spello
s/Firware/Firmware/

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2021-03-28 17:31:13 -07:00
Vijay Khemka 5e0fcc16e5 net/ncsi: Support for multi host mellanox card
Multi host Mellanox cards require MAC affinity to be set
before receiving any config commands. All config commands
should also have unicast address for source address in
command header.

Adding GMA and SMAF(Set Mac Affinity) for Mellanox card
and call these in channel probe state machine if it is
defined in device tree.

Signed-off-by: Vijay Khemka <vijaykhemka@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-01-09 18:36:22 -08:00
Vijay Khemka cf0eba3342 net/ncsi: Disable global multicast filter
Disabling multicast filtering from NCSI if it is supported. As it
should not filter any multicast packets. In current code, multicast
filter is enabled and with an exception of optional field supported
by device are disabled filtering.

Mainly I see if goal is to disable filtering for IPV6 packets then let
it disabled for every other types as well. As we are seeing issues with
LLDP not working with this enabled filtering. And there are other issues
with IPV6.

By Disabling this multicast completely, it is working for both IPV6 as
well as LLDP.

Signed-off-by: Vijay Khemka <vijaykhemka@fb.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
2019-09-19 18:04:40 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 2874c5fd28 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
Vijay Khemka 16e8c4ca21 net/ncsi: Add NCSI Mellanox OEM command
This patch adds OEM Mellanox commands and response handling. It also
defines OEM Get MAC Address handler to get and configure the device.

ncsi_oem_gma_handler_mlx: This handler send NCSI mellanox command for
getting mac address.
ncsi_rsp_handler_oem_mlx: This handles response received for all
mellanox OEM commands.
ncsi_rsp_handler_oem_mlx_gma: This handles get mac address response and
set it to device.

Signed-off-by: Vijay Khemka <vijaykhemka@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-11-27 16:37:20 -08:00
Samuel Mendoza-Jonas 8d951a75d0 net/ncsi: Configure multi-package, multi-channel modes with failover
This patch extends the ncsi-netlink interface with two new commands and
three new attributes to configure multiple packages and/or channels at
once, and configure specific failover modes.

NCSI_CMD_SET_PACKAGE mask and NCSI_CMD_SET_CHANNEL_MASK set a whitelist
of packages or channels allowed to be configured with the
NCSI_ATTR_PACKAGE_MASK and NCSI_ATTR_CHANNEL_MASK attributes
respectively. If one of these whitelists is set only packages or
channels matching the whitelist are considered for the channel queue in
ncsi_choose_active_channel().

These commands may also use the NCSI_ATTR_MULTI_FLAG to signal that
multiple packages or channels may be configured simultaneously. NCSI
hardware arbitration (HWA) must be available in order to enable
multi-package mode. Multi-channel mode is always available.

If the NCSI_ATTR_CHANNEL_ID attribute is present in the
NCSI_CMD_SET_CHANNEL_MASK command the it sets the preferred channel as
with the NCSI_CMD_SET_INTERFACE command. The combination of preferred
channel and channel whitelist defines a primary channel and the allowed
failover channels.
If the NCSI_ATTR_MULTI_FLAG attribute is also present then the preferred
channel is configured for Tx/Rx and the other channels are enabled only
for Rx.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-11-17 21:09:49 -08:00
Samuel Mendoza-Jonas 2878a2cfe5 net/ncsi: Reset channel state in ncsi_start_dev()
When the NCSI driver is stopped with ncsi_stop_dev() the channel
monitors are stopped and the state set to "inactive". However the
channels are still configured and active from the perspective of the
network controller. We should suspend each active channel but in the
context of ncsi_stop_dev() the transmit queue has been or is about to be
stopped so we won't have time to do so.

Instead when ncsi_start_dev() is called if the NCSI topology has already
been probed then call ncsi_reset_dev() to suspend any channels that were
previously active. This resets the network controller to a known state,
provides an up to date view of channel link state, and makes sure that
mode flags such as NCSI_MODE_TX_ENABLE are properly reset.

In addition to ncsi_start_dev() use ncsi_reset_dev() in ncsi-netlink.c
to update the channel configuration more cleanly.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-11-17 21:09:49 -08:00
Samuel Mendoza-Jonas 8e13f70be0 net/ncsi: Probe single packages to avoid conflict
Currently the NCSI driver sends a select-package command to all possible
packages simultaneously to discover what packages are available. However
at this stage in the probe process the driver does not know if
hardware arbitration is available: if it isn't then this process could
cause collisions on the RMII bus when packages try to respond.

Update the probe loop to probe each package one by one, and once
complete check if HWA is universally supported.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-11-17 21:09:49 -08:00
Vijay Khemka cb10c7c0df net/ncsi: Add NCSI Broadcom OEM command
This patch adds OEM Broadcom commands and response handling. It also
defines OEM Get MAC Address handler to get and configure the device.

ncsi_oem_gma_handler_bcm: This handler send NCSI broadcom command for
getting mac address.
ncsi_rsp_handler_oem_bcm: This handles response received for all
broadcom OEM commands.
ncsi_rsp_handler_oem_bcm_gma: This handles get mac address response and
set it to device.

Signed-off-by: Vijay Khemka <vijaykhemka@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-10-17 22:14:54 -07:00
Justin.Lee1@Dell.com 9771b8ccdf net/ncsi: Extend NC-SI Netlink interface to allow user space to send NC-SI command
The new command (NCSI_CMD_SEND_CMD) is added to allow user space application
to send NC-SI command to the network card.
Also, add a new attribute (NCSI_ATTR_DATA) for transferring request and response.

The work flow is as below.

Request:
User space application
	-> Netlink interface (msg)
	-> new Netlink handler - ncsi_send_cmd_nl()
	-> ncsi_xmit_cmd()

Response:
Response received - ncsi_rcv_rsp()
	-> internal response handler - ncsi_rsp_handler_xxx()
	-> ncsi_rsp_handler_netlink()
	-> ncsi_send_netlink_rsp ()
	-> Netlink interface (msg)
	-> user space application

Command timeout - ncsi_request_timeout()
	-> ncsi_send_netlink_timeout ()
	-> Netlink interface (msg with zero data length)
	-> user space application

Error:
Error detected
	-> ncsi_send_netlink_err ()
	-> Netlink interface (err msg)
	-> user space application

Signed-off-by: Justin Lee <justin.lee1@dell.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-10-15 22:00:59 -07:00
Vijay Khemka fb4ee67529 net/ncsi: Add NCSI OEM command support
This patch adds OEM commands and response handling. It also defines OEM
command and response structure as per NCSI specification along with its
handlers.

ncsi_cmd_handler_oem: This is a generic command request handler for OEM
commands
ncsi_rsp_handler_oem: This is a generic response handler for OEM commands

Signed-off-by: Vijay Khemka <vijaykhemka@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Lee <justin.lee1@dell.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-10-05 14:54:47 -07:00
Samuel Mendoza-Jonas 062b3e1b6d net/ncsi: Refactor MAC, VLAN filters
The NCSI driver defines a generic ncsi_channel_filter struct that can be
used to store arbitrarily formatted filters, and several generic methods
of accessing data stored in such a filter.
However in both the driver and as defined in the NCSI specification
there are only two actual filters: VLAN ID filters and MAC address
filters. The splitting of the MAC filter into unicast, multicast, and
mixed is also technically not necessary as these are stored in the same
location in hardware.

To save complexity, particularly in the set up and accessing of these
generic filters, remove them in favour of two specific structs. These
can be acted on directly and do not need several generic helper
functions to use.

This also fixes a memory error found by KASAN on ARM32 (which is not
upstream yet), where response handlers accessing a filter's data field
could write past allocated memory.

[  114.926512] ==================================================================
[  114.933861] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ncsi_configure_channel+0x4b8/0xc58
[  114.941304] Read of size 2 at addr 94888558 by task kworker/0:2/546
[  114.947593]
[  114.949146] CPU: 0 PID: 546 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 4.16.0-rc6-00119-ge156398bfcad #13
...
[  115.170233] The buggy address belongs to the object at 94888540
[  115.170233]  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-32 of size 32
[  115.181917] The buggy address is located 24 bytes inside of
[  115.181917]  32-byte region [94888540, 94888560)
[  115.192115] The buggy address belongs to the page:
[  115.196943] page:9eeac100 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:94888000 index:0x94888fc1
[  115.204200] flags: 0x100(slab)
[  115.207330] raw: 00000100 94888000 94888fc1 0000003f 00000001 9eea2014 9eecaa74 96c003e0
[  115.215444] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
[  115.221036]
[  115.222544] Memory state around the buggy address:
[  115.227384]  94888400: fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
[  115.233959]  94888480: 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc 00 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc
[  115.240529] >94888500: 00 00 04 fc fc fc fc fc 00 00 04 fc fc fc fc fc
[  115.247077]                                             ^
[  115.252523]  94888580: 00 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc 06 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
[  115.259093]  94888600: 00 00 06 fc fc fc fc fc 00 00 04 fc fc fc fc fc
[  115.265639] ==================================================================

Reported-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-04-17 13:50:58 -04:00
Samuel Mendoza-Jonas 955dc68cb9 net/ncsi: Add generic netlink family
Add a generic netlink family for NCSI. This supports three commands;
NCSI_CMD_PKG_INFO which returns information on packages and their
associated channels, NCSI_CMD_SET_INTERFACE which allows a specific
package or package/channel combination to be set as the preferred
choice, and NCSI_CMD_CLEAR_INTERFACE which clears any preferred setting.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-03-05 10:43:37 -05:00
Samuel Mendoza-Jonas 6e9c007540 net/ncsi: Don't limit vids based on hot_channel
Currently we drop any new VLAN ids if there are more than the current
(or last used) channel can support. Most importantly this is a problem
if no channel has been selected yet, resulting in a segfault.

Secondly this does not necessarily reflect the capabilities of any other
channels. Instead only drop a new VLAN id if we are already tracking the
maximum allowed by the NCSI specification. Per-channel limits are
already handled by ncsi_add_filter(), but add a message to set_one_vid()
to make it obvious that the channel can not support any more VLAN ids.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-10-11 20:10:37 -07:00
Samuel Mendoza-Jonas 21acf63013 net/ncsi: Configure VLAN tag filter
Make use of the ndo_vlan_rx_{add,kill}_vid callbacks to have the NCSI
stack process new VLAN tags and configure the channel VLAN filter
appropriately.
Several VLAN tags can be set and a "Set VLAN Filter" packet must be sent
for each one, meaning the ncsi_dev_state_config_svf state must be
repeated. An internal list of VLAN tags is maintained, and compared
against the current channel's ncsi_channel_filter in order to keep track
within the state. VLAN filters are removed in a similar manner, with the
introduction of the ncsi_dev_state_config_clear_vids state. The maximum
number of VLAN tag filters is determined by the "Get Capabilities"
response from the channel.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-08-28 16:49:49 -07:00
Gavin Shan bbc7c01e95 net/ncsi: Choose hot channel as active one if necessary
The issue was found on BCM5718 which has two NCSI channels in one
package: C0 and C1. C0 is in link-up state while C1 is in link-down
state. C0 is chosen as active channel until unplugging and plugging
C0's cable:  On unplugging C0's cable, LSC (Link State Change) AEN
packet received on C0 to report link-down event. After that, C1 is
chosen as active channel. LSC AEN for link-up event is lost on C0
when plugging C0's cable back. We lose the network even C0 is usable.

This resolves the issue by recording the (hot) channel that was ever
chosen as active one. The hot channel is chosen to be active one
if none of available channels in link-up state. With this, C0 is still
the active one after unplugging C0's cable. LSC AEN packet received
on C0 when plugging its cable back.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-20 11:23:07 -04:00
Gavin Shan 008a424a24 net/ncsi: Fix stale link state of inactive channels on failover
The issue was found on BCM5718 which has two NCSI channels in one
package: C0 and C1. Both of them are connected to different LANs,
means they are in link-up state and C0 is chosen as the active one
until resetting BCM5718 happens as below.

Resetting BCM5718 results in LSC (Link State Change) AEN packet
received on C0, meaning LSC AEN is missed on C1. When LSC AEN packet
received on C0 to report link-down, it fails over to C1 because C1
is in link-up state as software can see. However, C1 is in link-down
state in hardware. It means the link state is out of synchronization
between hardware and software, resulting in inappropriate channel (C1)
selected as active one.

This resolves the issue by sending separate GLS (Get Link Status)
commands to all channels in the package before trying to do failover.
The last link states of all channels in the package are retrieved.
With it, C0 (not C1) is selected as active one as expected.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-20 11:23:07 -04:00
Gavin Shan 83afdc6aad net/ncsi: Rework the channel monitoring
The original NCSI channel monitoring was implemented based on a
backoff algorithm: the GLS response should be received in the
specified interval. Otherwise, the channel is regarded as dead
and failover should be taken if current channel is an active one.
There are several problems in the implementation: (A) On BCM5718,
we found when the IID (Instance ID) in the GLS command packet
changes from 255 to 1, the response corresponding to IID#1 never
comes in. It means we cannot make the unfair judgement that the
channel is dead when one response is missed. (B) The code's
readability should be improved. (C) We should do failover when
current channel is active one and the channel monitoring should
be marked as disabled before doing failover.

This reworks the channel monitoring to address all above issues.
The fields for channel monitoring is put into separate struct
and the state of channel monitoring is predefined. The channel
is regarded alive if the network controller responses to one of
two GLS commands or both of them in 5 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-04 02:11:51 -04:00
Gavin Shan a0509cbeef net/ncsi: Allow to extend NCSI request properties
There is only one NCSI request property for now: the response for
the sent command need drive the workqueue or not. So we had one
field (@driven) for the purpose. We lost the flexibility to extend
NCSI request properties.

This replaces @driven with @flags and @req_flags in NCSI request
and NCSI command argument struct. Each bit of the newly introduced
field can be used for one property. No functional changes introduced.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-04 02:11:50 -04:00
Gavin Shan a15af54f8f net/ncsi: Rework request index allocation
The NCSI request index (struct ncsi_request::id) is put into instance
ID (IID) field while sending NCSI command packet. It was designed the
available IDs are given in round-robin fashion. @ndp->request_id was
introduced to represent the next available ID, but it has been used
as number of successively allocated IDs. It breaks the round-robin
design. Besides, we shouldn't put 0 to NCSI command packet's IID
field, meaning ID#0 should be reserved according section 6.3.1.1
in NCSI spec (v1.1.0).

This fixes above two issues. With it applied, the available IDs will
be assigned in round-robin fashion and ID#0 won't be assigned.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-04 02:11:50 -04:00
Gavin Shan bc7e0f50aa net/ncsi: Introduce NCSI_RESERVED_CHANNEL
This defines NCSI_RESERVED_CHANNEL as the reserved NCSI channel
ID (0x1f). No logical changes introduced.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-04 02:11:50 -04:00
Gavin Shan 7a82ecf4cf net/ncsi: NCSI AEN packet handler
This introduces NCSI AEN packet handlers that result in (A) the
currently active channel is reconfigured; (B) Currently active
channel is deconfigured and disabled, another channel is chosen
as active one and configured. Case (B) won't happen if hardware
arbitration has been enabled, the channel that was in active
state is suspended simply.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-19 20:49:17 -07:00
Gavin Shan e6f44ed6d0 net/ncsi: Package and channel management
This manages NCSI packages and channels:

 * The available packages and channels are enumerated in the first
   time of calling ncsi_start_dev(). The channels' capabilities are
   probed in the meanwhile. The NCSI network topology won't change
   until the NCSI device is destroyed.
 * There in a queue in every NCSI device. The element in the queue,
   channel, is waiting for configuration (bringup) or suspending
   (teardown). The channel's state (inactive/active) indicates the
   futher action (configuration or suspending) will be applied on the
   channel. Another channel's state (invisible) means the requested
   action is being applied.
 * The hardware arbitration will be enabled if all available packages
   and channels support it. All available channels try to provide
   service when hardware arbitration is enabled. Otherwise, one channel
   is selected as the active one at once.
 * When channel is in active state, meaning it's providing service, a
   timer started to retrieve the channe's link status. If the channel's
   link status fails to be updated in the determined period, the channel
   is going to be reconfigured. It's the error handling implementation
   as defined in NCSI spec.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-19 20:49:17 -07:00
Gavin Shan 138635cc27 net/ncsi: NCSI response packet handler
The NCSI response packets are sent to MC (Management Controller)
from the remote end. They are responses of NCSI command packets
for multiple purposes: completion status of NCSI command packets,
return NCSI channel's capability or configuration etc.

This defines struct to represent NCSI response packets and introduces
function ncsi_rcv_rsp() which will be used to receive NCSI response
packets and parse them.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-19 20:49:17 -07:00
Gavin Shan 6389eaa7fa net/ncsi: NCSI command packet handler
The NCSI command packets are sent from MC (Management Controller)
to remote end. They are used for multiple purposes: probe existing
NCSI package/channel, retrieve NCSI channel's capability, configure
NCSI channel etc.

This defines struct to represent NCSI command packets and introduces
function ncsi_xmit_cmd(), which will be used to transmit NCSI command
packet according to the request. The request is represented by struct
ncsi_cmd_arg.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-19 20:49:16 -07:00
Gavin Shan 2d283bdd07 net/ncsi: Resource management
NCSI spec (DSP0222) defines several objects: package, channel, mode,
filter, version and statistics etc. This introduces the data structs
to represent those objects and implement functions to manage them.
Also, this introduces CONFIG_NET_NCSI for the newly implemented NCSI
stack.

   * The user (e.g. netdev driver) dereference NCSI device by
     "struct ncsi_dev", which is embedded to "struct ncsi_dev_priv".
     The later one is used by NCSI stack internally.
   * Every NCSI device can have multiple packages simultaneously, up
     to 8 packages. It's represented by "struct ncsi_package" and
     identified by 3-bits ID.
   * Every NCSI package can have multiple channels, up to 32. It's
     represented by "struct ncsi_channel" and identified by 5-bits ID.
   * Every NCSI channel has version, statistics, various modes and
     filters. They are represented by "struct ncsi_channel_version",
     "struct ncsi_channel_stats", "struct ncsi_channel_mode" and
     "struct ncsi_channel_filter" separately.
   * Apart from AEN (Asynchronous Event Notification), the NCSI stack
     works in terms of command and response. This introduces "struct
     ncsi_req" to represent a complete NCSI transaction made of NCSI
     request and response.

link: https://www.dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP0222_1.1.0.pdf
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-07-19 20:49:16 -07:00