[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v1 4/5] net/mlx5: Register separate reload devlink ops for multiport device

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:35:51AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 17:31:04 +0300 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:26:31AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 17:16:28 +0300 Leon Romanovsky wrote:  
> > > > devlink_ops pointer is not constant at this stage, so why can't I copy
> > > > reload_* pointers to the "main" devlink ops?
> > > > 
> > > > I wanted to avoid to copy all pointers.  
> > > 
> > > Hm. I must be missing a key piece here. IIUC you want to have different
> > > ops based on some device property. But there is only one
> > > 
> > > static struct devlink_ops mlx5_devlink_ops;
> > > 
> > > so how can two devlink instances in the system use that and have
> > > different ops without a copy?  
> > 
> > No, I have two:
> > * Base ops - mlx5_devlink_ops
> > * Extra reload commands - mlx5_devlink_reload
> 
> Still those are global for the driver, no?

Ugh, yes

> 
> What if you have multiple NICs or whatever.

I missed it and always tested with one device L(.

I'll add copy-all-ops code.

Thanks