Message ID | cover.1538734658.git.igor.russkikh@aquantia.com (mailing list archive) |
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Headers | show |
Series | Add support for Aquantia AQtion USB to 5/2.5GbE devices | expand |
On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 10:24:37AM +0000, Igor Russkikh wrote: > This patchset introduces support for new multigig ethernet to USB dongle, > developed jointly by Aquantia (Phy) and ASIX (USB MAC). > > The driver has similar structure with other ASIX MAC drivers (AX88179), but > with a number of important differences: > - Driver supports both direct Phy and custom firmware interface for Phy > programming. This is due to different firmware modules available with this > product. > - Driver handles new 2.5G/5G link speed configuration and reporting. > - Device support all speeds from 100M up to 5G. > - Device supports MTU up to 16K. > > Device supports various standard networking features, like > checksum offloads, vlan tagging/filtering, TSO. > > The code of this driver is based on original ASIX sources and was extended > by Aquantia for 5G multigig support. > Hi Igor, Dmitry Nice patch set, well broken up, easy to review. Andrew
Hi Andrew, > Nice patch set, well broken up, easy to review. > Thanks a lot for your detailed review, your comments are really useful! I'll respond to some of your comments separately. Regards, Igor
On Fr, 2018-10-05 at 10:24 +0000, Igor Russkikh wrote: > This patchset introduces support for new multigig ethernet to USB dongle, > developed jointly by Aquantia (Phy) and ASIX (USB MAC). > > The driver has similar structure with other ASIX MAC drivers (AX88179), but > with a number of important differences: > - Driver supports both direct Phy and custom firmware interface for Phy > programming. This is due to different firmware modules available with this > product. > - Driver handles new 2.5G/5G link speed configuration and reporting. > - Device support all speeds from 100M up to 5G. > - Device supports MTU up to 16K. > > Device supports various standard networking features, like > checksum offloads, vlan tagging/filtering, TSO. > > The code of this driver is based on original ASIX sources and was extended > by Aquantia for 5G multigig support. Thank you for the driver. It is good to see drivers for cool hardware. Unfortunately there have been a few issues I have tried to point out in reviews. Please fix them and resubmit. Regards Oliver
On 08.10.2018 17:21, Oliver Neukum wrote: >> The code of this driver is based on original ASIX sources and was extended >> by Aquantia for 5G multigig support. > > Thank you for the driver. It is good to see drivers for cool hardware. > Unfortunately there have been a few issues I have tried to point out > in reviews. Please fix them and resubmit. > Thank you Oliver for valuable input, working on this already. Regards, Igor