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Title:
  Mellanox updates for Trusty

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Trusty:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Utopic:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  SRU Justification:

  [Impact]
  Users of Mellanox mlx4_{core,en} drivers may be missing hardware enablement features.
  [Test Case]
  Test Mellanox hardware and ensure functionality with mlx4_{core,en} drivers.
  [Fix]
  As described below, and summarized in Comment #5.

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  The following changes since commit
  b87885d70c29324b66ee7d4f979a9f95cc46564b:

    UBUNTU: Ubuntu-3.13.0-42.71 (2014-12-05 14:35:11 +0000)

  are attached to this tracker as patch files.

  The main goal for this is patch-set is to add functionality to:
  1. reduce cache misses by aligning CQE/EQE writes to the actual cache line size
  2. set/get link speed using ethtool [-s].
  3. set  rx/tx vlan offload
  4. bug fixes

  all of the patches are upsream (net-next),  except for the last one which is a bug fix waiting for review:
  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/418451/

  Ido Shamay (3):
        net/mlx4_core: Enable CQE/EQE stride support
        net/mlx4_core: Cache line EQE size support
        net/mlx4_en: Add mlx4_en_get_cqe helper

  Saeed Mahameed (12):
        net/mlx4_core: Introduce mlx4_get_module_info for cable module info reading
        ethtool, net/mlx4_en: Cable info, get_module_info/eeprom ethtool support
        net/mlx4_core: Introduce ACCESS_REG CMD and eth_prot_ctrl dev cap
        net/mlx4_core: Add ethernet backplane autoneg device capability
        ethtool, net/mlx4_en: Add 100M, 20G, 56G speeds ethtool reporting support
        net/mlx4_en: Use PTYS register to query ethtool settings
        net/mlx4_en: Use PTYS register to set ethtool settings (Speed)
        net/mlx4_en: Add support for setting rxvlan offload OFF/ON
        net/mlx4_en: Add ethtool support for [rx|tx]vlan offload set to OFF/ON
        net/mlx4_core: Prevent VF from changing port configuration
        net/mlx4_en: mlx4_en_set_settings() always fails when autoneg is set
        net/mlx4_en: ethtool force speed when asking for autoneg=off

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