From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Pirko Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 4/6] mlx4: Implement devlink interface Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:51:10 +0100 Message-ID: <20160216165110.GG2227@nanopsycho.orion> References: <1454496482-13961-1-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> <1454496482-13961-5-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> <56C351C9.9010203@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, idosch@mellanox.com, eladr@mellanox.com, yotamg@mellanox.com, yishaih@mellanox.com, dledford@redhat.com, sean.hefty@intel.com, hal.rosenstock@gmail.com, eugenia@mellanox.com, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com, hadarh@mellanox.com, jhs@mojatatu.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, jbenc@redhat.com To: Or Gerlitz Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f48.google.com ([74.125.82.48]:32912 "EHLO mail-wm0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754641AbcBPQvN (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:51:13 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-f48.google.com with SMTP id g62so200244814wme.0 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:51:12 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56C351C9.9010203@mellanox.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 05:43:53PM CET, ogerlitz@mellanox.com wrote: >On 2/3/2016 12:48 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >>Implement newly introduced devlink interface. Add devlink port instances >>for every port and set the port types accordingly. >> > >Lets see how to use the newly introduced interface in a way which would allow >us to get a configuration >profile from user-space and program it to the firmware. This is generic >problem for other drivers too - we've triedsolving it with configfs in the >past but the patches were not accepted. That we plan to do for mlxsw as well via devlink. That will be in a follow-up patchset.