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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch v1 1/2] Allow Mellanox network vendor to be configured
 if only I2C bus is configured
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From: Ohad Oz <ohado@mellanox.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 15:26:56 +0000

> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Leon Romanovsky [mailto:leon@kernel.org]
>> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2017 5:37 PM
>> To: Ohad Oz <ohado@mellanox.com>
>> Cc: davem@davemloft.net; netdev@vger.kernel.org; jiri@resnulli.us; Saeed
>> Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>; Vadim Pasternak
>> <vadimp@mellanox.com>; system-sw-low-level <system-sw-low-
>> level@mellanox.com>
>> Subject: Re: [patch v1 1/2] Allow Mellanox network vendor to be configured
>> if only I2C bus is configured
>> 
>> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 05:11:51PM +0000, Ohad Oz wrote:
>> > Patch allows Mellanox devices on system with no PCI, but with I2C only.
>> >
>> 
>> Did you test mlx5 device on such system? Did it work for you?
> 
> Yes, I did. With PCI config set to disable mlx5 drivers are not built. 
> Only the following: 
> /build/drivers/net/Ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/mlxsw_core.ko
> /build/drivers/net/Ethernet/mellanox /mlxsw/mlxsw_i2c.ko
> /build/drivers/net/Ethernet/mellanox /mlxsw/mlxsw_minimal.ko
> 
> While with both options on all drivers are built inc mlx5.

I'm not so sure he's interested if things build or not.

He's asking you if you actually used a Mellanox device with this
driver with PCI disabled and only I2C available.