Re: [PATCH 3/8] fwctl: FWCTL_INFO to return basic information about the device

[Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>]

On 6/13/24 4:40 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 04:32:44PM -0700, Dave Jiang wrote:
> 
>> Are you open to pass in potential user input for the info query? I'm
>> working on plumbing fwctl for CXL. 
> 
> Neat!
> 
>> The current CXL query command [1] takes a number of commands as
>> input for its ioctl. For fwctl_cmd_info(), the current
>> implementation is when ->info() is called no information about the
>> user buffer length or an input buffer is provided. 
> 
> Right, the purpose of info is to report information about the fwctl
> driver. It is to allow the userspace to connect to the correct
> userspace driver. It shouldn't be doing much with the device.
> 
> If you want to execute a info command *to the fw* then I'd expect
> you'd execute the command through the normal RPC channel? Does
> something prevent this?

Ok that makes sense. I should be able to do it through RPC with some tweaks. 

> 
> This is how the mlx5 driver is working where there are many info
> (called CAP) commands that return data, and they all run over the rpc
> channel.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason