Hi Arnd, This is Huawei's PCIE HiNIC card.
I am not familiar with the HiSilicon product and I don't see how Huawei's PCIE HiNIC card is connected to the HiSilicon drivers on Linux Tree. I don't see how it can be shared: different product and different code. Thanks, Aviad On 8/23/2017 10:37 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Aviad Krawczyk > <aviad.krawc...@huawei.com> wrote: >> The patch-set contains the support of the HiNIC Ethernet driver for >> hinic family of PCIE Network Interface Cards. >> >> The Huawei's PCIE HiNIC card is a new Ethernet card and hence there was >> a need of a new driver. >> >> The current driver is meant to be used for the Physical Function and there >> would soon be a support for Virtual Function and more features once the >> basic PF driver has been accepted. > > Sorry I didn't comment before it got merged, but once it appeared in > linux-next I saw it and wondered why this is grouped under huawei > unlike the network drivers for the parts integrated into the hip0x > SoCs from hisilicon. Both appear to be made by Huawei's HiSilicon > subsidiary. > > I did not check whether the two devices are related at all or could > share some of the source code as well, but it might be good to > move this one into the existing directory to spare confusion later. > > Arnd > > . >
