From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/7] net: devlink: Add unused port flavour
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 00:07:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200928220730.GD3950513@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200928220507.olh77t464bqsc4ll@skbuf>
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 10:05:08PM +0000, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 02:31:55PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 23:06:26 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > Not all ports of a switch need to be used, particularly in embedded
> > > systems. Add a port flavour for ports which physically exist in the
> > > switch, but are not connected to the front panel etc, and so are
> > > unused.
> >
> > This is missing the explanation of why reporting such ports makes sense.
>
> Because this is a core devlink patch, we're talking really generalistic
> here.
Hi Vladimir
I don't think Jakub is questioning the why. He just wants it in the
commit message.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-28 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-26 21:06 [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] mv88e6xxx: Add per port devlink regions Andrew Lunn
2020-09-26 21:06 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/7] net: devlink: Add unused port flavour Andrew Lunn
2020-09-26 21:51 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-09-26 22:00 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-09-27 0:33 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-28 21:31 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-09-28 22:05 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-09-28 22:07 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2020-09-28 22:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-09-28 22:36 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-09-28 23:39 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-09-29 1:46 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-09-29 11:03 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-09-29 13:07 ` Jiri Pirko
2020-09-29 13:48 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-09-29 15:12 ` Jiri Pirko
2020-09-29 13:57 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-30 6:56 ` Jiri Pirko
2020-09-30 13:57 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-30 14:34 ` Jiri Pirko
2020-09-30 14:53 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-10-01 7:39 ` Jiri Pirko
2020-09-26 21:06 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/7] net: dsa: Make use of devlink port flavour unused Andrew Lunn
2020-09-26 22:51 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-09-26 21:06 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/7] net: dsa: Register devlink ports before calling DSA driver setup() Andrew Lunn
2020-09-26 23:37 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-09-27 0:45 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-26 21:06 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/7] net: devlink: Add support for port regions Andrew Lunn
2020-09-26 21:06 ` [PATCH net-next v2 5/7] net: dsa: Add devlink port regions support to DSA Andrew Lunn
2020-09-26 23:42 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-09-26 21:06 ` [PATCH net-next v2 6/7] net: dsa: Add helper for converting devlink port to ds and port Andrew Lunn
2020-09-26 21:06 ` [PATCH net-next v2 7/7] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Add per port devlink regions Andrew Lunn
2020-09-26 23:52 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-09-27 1:03 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-27 1:11 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-09-26 22:02 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] " Marek Behun
2020-09-26 22:11 ` Vladimir Oltean
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