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e1000e: convert driver to use extended descriptors
authorJoe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Thu, 17 May 2012 05:33:45 +0000 (13:33 +0800)
committerJoe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Thu, 17 May 2012 06:30:08 +0000 (14:30 +0800)
commit9557b30b90d2564d299070ea495bd3c80b16b6c8
tree9a3893d6dce579cdfae8a4c15895fd096326e99f
parentf19d1e62002634663b92ae852070a66ee74197f9
e1000e: convert driver to use extended descriptors

Some features currently not supported by the driver (e.g. RSS) require the
use of extended descriptors, but the driver is setup to only use legacy
descriptors in all modes except for when jumbo frames are enabled on some
parts.  Convert the driver to always use extended descriptors in order to
enable the forthcoming support of these other features.

(backported from commit 5f450212f281272f4ef81d96b79bf68cebdbc210)
Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
drivers/net/e1000e/e1000.h
drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c
drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c