Re: [PATCH mlx5-next 2/6] IB/mlx5: Unify e-switch representors load approach between uplink and VFs

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 07:11:37PM -0800, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> From: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>
> 
> When in switchdev mode and the add function is called by the core
> level driver, make sure we only register the callbacks, but don't
> create the mlx5 IB device or initialize anything. With this change
> all the IB devices in switchdev mode are created only once the load
> callback is invoked by the e-switch core sub-module. This follows
> the design paradigm under which the all the Eth representors must
> be loaded before any of IB reprs is loaded.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>
> Acked-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/ib_rep.c  | 11 ++++++++++-
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c    | 29 +++++++++-------------------
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h |  1 -
>  3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

Why is this going in the shared branch? This looks like an IB patch??

Jason