From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: "Maxime Chevallier" <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
"Björn Töpel" <bjorn@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Naveen Mamindlapalli" <naveenm@marvell.com>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
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"Danielle Ratson" <danieller@nvidia.com>,
"Hariprasad Kelam" <hkelam@marvell.com>,
"Ido Schimmel" <idosch@nvidia.com>,
"Kory Maincent" <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>,
"Leon Romanovsky" <leon@kernel.org>,
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"Saeed Mahameed" <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
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"Tariq Toukan" <tariqt@nvidia.com>,
"Willem de Bruijn" <willemb@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 02/11] ethtool: Add loopback netlink UAPI definitions
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:50:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260311195052.1202174f@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <438dae03-4dac-4e66-9f4d-e08b0434c9b4@lunn.ch>
On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:26:39 +0100 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > For that we have what we need with phy_link_topology, as each PHY has
> > its index, we should be good to go in that regard hopefully :)
>
> So depth would be local to a component? We could have two PHY
> components, each with a different index, and depth = 0?
>
> I _think_ Jakub's depth was more at a global level? But then it would
> need to be passed down as we do the enumeration.
Oh, sorry, I responded without reading the whole discussion :)
No, I imagined the depth would be within a single component,
so under control of a single driver (instance). The ordering
between components should be defined by PHY topology etc so
it's outside of the loopback config.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-12 2:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-10 10:47 [PATCH net-next 00/11] ethtool: Generic loopback support Björn Töpel
2026-03-10 10:47 ` [PATCH net-next 01/11] ethtool: Add dump_one_dev callback for per-device sub-iteration Björn Töpel
2026-03-12 2:32 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-13 16:36 ` Björn Töpel
2026-03-10 10:47 ` [PATCH net-next 02/11] ethtool: Add loopback netlink UAPI definitions Björn Töpel
2026-03-11 7:33 ` Maxime Chevallier
2026-03-11 10:39 ` Björn Töpel
2026-03-11 15:30 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-03-11 15:42 ` Maxime Chevallier
2026-03-11 19:37 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-03-12 2:47 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-12 13:46 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-03-13 0:21 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-11 10:50 ` Oleksij Rempel
2026-03-12 2:49 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-11 15:22 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-03-11 15:35 ` Maxime Chevallier
2026-03-11 19:26 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-03-12 2:50 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2026-03-12 5:04 ` Oleksij Rempel
2026-03-12 7:49 ` Maxime Chevallier
2026-03-12 8:46 ` Oleksij Rempel
2026-03-12 13:34 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-03-12 13:51 ` Oleksij Rempel
2026-03-12 16:39 ` Maxime Chevallier
2026-03-13 19:11 ` Björn Töpel
2026-03-15 15:09 ` Oleksij Rempel
2026-03-15 16:20 ` Björn Töpel
2026-03-18 15:59 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-03-10 10:47 ` [PATCH net-next 03/11] ethtool: Add loopback GET/SET netlink implementation Björn Töpel
2026-03-12 2:51 ` [net-next,03/11] " Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-10 10:47 ` [PATCH net-next 04/11] ethtool: Add CMIS loopback helpers for module loopback control Björn Töpel
2026-03-10 10:47 ` [PATCH net-next 05/11] selftests: drv-net: Add loopback driver test Björn Töpel
2026-03-10 10:47 ` [PATCH net-next 06/11] ethtool: Add MAC loopback support via ethtool_ops Björn Töpel
2026-03-11 6:04 ` [PATCH 6/11] " Naveen Mamindlapalli
2026-03-10 10:47 ` [PATCH net-next 07/11] netdevsim: Add MAC loopback simulation Björn Töpel
2026-03-10 10:47 ` [PATCH net-next 08/11] selftests: drv-net: Add MAC loopback netdevsim test Björn Töpel
2026-03-10 10:47 ` [PATCH net-next 09/11] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for ethtool loopback Björn Töpel
2026-03-10 10:47 ` [PATCH net-next 10/11] netdevsim: Add module EEPROM simulation via debugfs Björn Töpel
2026-03-12 2:52 ` [net-next,10/11] " Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-10 10:47 ` [PATCH net-next 11/11] selftests: drv-net: Add CMIS loopback netdevsim test Björn Töpel
2026-03-11 6:18 ` [PATCH net-next 00/11] ethtool: Generic loopback support Naveen Mamindlapalli
2026-03-11 10:24 ` Björn Töpel
2026-03-12 2:53 ` Jakub Kicinski
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