On Thursday 23 September 2010, John Fastabend wrote: > On 8/25/2010 5:27 AM, Jens Osterkamp wrote: > > This patch contains an initial implemention of VDP as specified in IEEE > > 802.1Qbg. > > VDP serves as the upper layer protocol (ULP) for TLVs communicated via the > > ECP protocol. > > For this it registers as a new module in lldpad. The VDP module supports a > > station and a bridge role. As a station, new VSI (virtual station interface) > > profiles can be registered to the VDP module using lldptool or libvirt. > > These profiles are then announced to an adjacent switch. Transmitted > > profiles > > are processed to the desired state by the VDP station state machine. > > As a bridge, the VDP module waits for new profiles received in TLVs by ECP. > > The received profiles are processed to the desired state by a VDP bridge > > state machine. > > > > VDP module parameters are stored in the "vdp" section under the appropriate > > interface. > > > > The patch still contains a lot of debug code to allow analysis of VDP > > protocol behavior. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jens Osterkamp <[email protected]>
snip > > > Few minor nits otherwise looks good. Please merge relevant parts with patch 4 > though. I will address all your comments in my next posting of the series. Thanks ! Jens -- IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
