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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:07:32 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Ratheesh Kannoth <rkannoth@marvell.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 01/13] octeontx2-af: npc: cn20k: Index
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:59:02 +0530 Ratheesh Kannoth wrote:
> On 2026-01-11 at 04:28:42, Jakub Kicinski (kuba@kernel.org) wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 11:18:16 +0530 Ratheesh Kannoth wrote:  
> > > +static int
> > > +npc_subbank_srch_order_parse_n_fill(struct rvu *rvu, char *options,
> > > +				    int num_subbanks)  
> >
> > Please avoid writable debugfs files,  
> I explored devlink option, but the input string is too big.
> 
> > do you really need them?  
> Customer can change subbank search order by modifying the search order
> thru this devlink.

Unclear what you're trying to say. Hope you documented this much better
in v4, otherwise this series if 7kLoC will take a very long time to
review..