From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8F08C433EF for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:05:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233854AbiGNQFL (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:05:11 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:36320 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232481AbiGNQFL (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:05:11 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4641:c500::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6401023162; Thu, 14 Jul 2022 09:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0280261FD7; Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:05:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0EB89C3411C; Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:05:09 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1657814709; bh=FGElCCXjvgdL/db7AgDojqXt2q/LMKeFmfNSRiC1OFM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=AvPxNW1ADkZ0OHFOVTzkNIKRqWK9ODGiIXXC6zIkvM+VeBGw+dnpTG8QwTIp0sw6s N2sHvP/ftilL13SFKMgZBMkM/XZxroFkPWL4CCthdxUMbwos6jwdRBQanpUsXt6vp+ RomG3q4NSgGQo6TE0bAApUH/hXl84uGJ93TZ6OimfydzT3YYWsW9OFZmGPIGDL+Dup yh6HB5Zn7Z468YzPlcxAG3hSS/ca5j2Ly1b/OGDetSN4mifxGcPzw+zlBIrXu/IogL 6HE4lN1sVxCiXRlmMyS4V3ealA2+KI2LdKjNYkWucf79gxPeEnMhEcCSu0EAMYNgAf FBYlXKLizs4vw== Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 09:05:00 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Martin Habets Cc: Bjorn Helgaas , davem@davemloft.net, pabeni@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ecree.xilinx@gmail.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] sfc: Add EF100 BAR config support Message-ID: <20220714090500.356846ea@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: References: <165719918216.28149.7678451615870416505.stgit@palantir17.mph.net> <20220707155500.GA305857@bhelgaas> <20220711114806.2724b349@kernel.org> <20220713114804.11c7517e@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:32:12 +0100 Martin Habets wrote: > > Okay. Indeed, we could easily bolt something onto devlink, I'd think > > but I don't know the space enough to push for one solution over > > another. > > > > Please try to document the problem and the solution... somewhere, tho. > > Otherwise the chances that the next vendor with this problem follows > > the same approach fall from low to none. > > Yeah, good point. The obvious thing would be to create a > Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/sfc/sfc/rst > Is that generic enough for other vendors to find out, or there a better place? Documentation/vdpa.rst ? I don't see any kernel level notes on implementing vDPA perhaps virt folks can suggest something. I don't think people would be looking into driver-specific docs when trying to implement an interface, so sfc is not a great option IMHO. > I can do a follow-up patch for this. Let's make it part of the same series.