Re: [PATCH net-next v4 00/14] sfc: add vDPA support for EF100 devices

Jason Wang
2023-04-10T01:40:43Z

On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 5:13 PM Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 01:40:01PM +0530, Gautam Dawar wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > This series adds the vdpa support for EF100 devices.
> > For now, only a network class of vdpa device is supported and
> > they can be created only on a VF. Each EF100 VF can have one
> > of the three function personalities (EF100, vDPA & None) at
> > any time with EF100 being the default. A VF's function personality
> > is changed to vDPA while creating the vdpa device using vdpa tool.
>
> Jakub,
>
> I wonder if it is not different approach to something that other drivers
> already do with devlink enable knobs (DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_ID_ENABLE_*)
> and auxiliary bus.

I think the auxiliary bus fits here, and I've proposed to use that in
V2 of this series.

Thanks

>
> Thanks
>