From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
arkadis@mellanox.com, mlxsw@mellanox.com,
vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com,
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ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, simon.horman@netronome.com,
pieter.jansenvanvuuren@netronome.com, john.hurley@netronome.com,
alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, linville@tuxdriver.com,
gospo@broadcom.com, steven.lin1@broadcom.com,
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 00/10] Add support for resource abstraction
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 14:08:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171227130803.GA31962@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171227093754.GB1997@nanopsycho>
> This is misunderstanding I believe. This is not about ABI. That is well
> defined by the netlink attributes. This is about meaning of particular
> ASIC-specific internal resources.
I would agree that the netlink attributed are clearly defined. But the
meta information, what this ASIC specific internal resource means when
you combine these attributes, is unclear. This meta information is
also part of the ABI, and documenting giving users a hit what it
means, and why they should change it, would be good practice.
Look at sysfs. open/read/write are clearly defined, which is the
equivalent of the netlink attributes. The meta information we document
in Documentation/ABI/, what a file name means, what a value means,
what other values it can take, etc.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-27 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-26 11:23 [patch net-next v2 00/10] Add support for resource abstraction Jiri Pirko
2017-12-26 11:23 ` [patch net-next v2 01/10] devlink: Add per devlink instance lock Jiri Pirko
2017-12-26 11:23 ` [patch net-next v2 02/10] devlink: Add support for resource abstraction Jiri Pirko
2017-12-26 11:23 ` [patch net-next v2 03/10] devlink: Add support for reload Jiri Pirko
2017-12-26 11:23 ` [patch net-next v2 04/10] devlink: Add relation between dpipe and resource Jiri Pirko
2017-12-26 11:23 ` [patch net-next v2 05/10] mlxsw: pci: Add support for performing bus reset Jiri Pirko
2017-12-26 11:23 ` [patch net-next v2 06/10] mlxsw: spectrum: Register KVD resources with devlink Jiri Pirko
2017-12-26 11:23 ` [patch net-next v2 07/10] mlxsw: spectrum_dpipe: Connect dpipe tables to resources Jiri Pirko
2017-12-26 11:23 ` [patch net-next v2 08/10] mlxsw: spectrum: Add support for getting kvdl occupancy Jiri Pirko
2017-12-26 11:23 ` [patch net-next v2 09/10] mlxsw: pci: Add support for getting resource through devlink Jiri Pirko
2017-12-26 11:23 ` [patch net-next v2 10/10] mlxsw: core: Add support for reload Jiri Pirko
2017-12-27 4:05 ` [patch net-next v2 00/10] Add support for resource abstraction David Ahern
2017-12-27 8:09 ` Jiri Pirko
2017-12-27 8:23 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-12-27 9:37 ` Jiri Pirko
2017-12-27 13:08 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2017-12-27 13:15 ` Jiri Pirko
2017-12-27 16:38 ` David Ahern
2017-12-27 19:31 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-12-27 20:16 ` David Ahern
2017-12-27 8:28 ` Yuval Mintz
2017-12-27 16:34 ` David Ahern
2017-12-27 19:43 ` Roopa Prabhu
2017-12-28 8:21 ` Yuval Mintz
2017-12-30 21:15 ` David Ahern
2017-12-31 10:52 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-12-31 15:46 ` David Ahern
2018-01-01 12:23 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-12-27 20:15 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-12-28 8:25 ` Yuval Mintz
2017-12-28 16:09 ` David Ahern
2017-12-28 16:23 ` Jiri Pirko
2017-12-28 16:33 ` David Ahern
2017-12-28 16:43 ` Jiri Pirko
2017-12-29 17:09 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-12-30 10:18 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-12-30 10:25 ` Jiri Pirko
2017-12-30 17:26 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-01-01 14:58 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2018-01-02 10:08 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-01-02 13:41 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-01-02 14:35 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-01-02 18:05 ` David Ahern
2018-01-03 18:05 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2018-01-03 18:14 ` David Ahern
2018-01-03 18:17 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-01-03 18:29 ` David Ahern
2018-01-03 18:36 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-01-04 16:58 ` David Ahern
2018-01-04 17:17 ` David Miller
2018-01-25 15:24 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-01-25 15:38 ` David Ahern
2018-01-25 15:50 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-01-04 0:07 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2018-01-04 2:28 ` David Ahern
2018-01-04 9:24 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2018-01-04 12:41 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-01-04 15:58 ` David Ahern
2018-01-04 16:13 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2018-01-04 16:44 ` David Ahern
2018-01-04 18:03 ` David Ahern
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