From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk0-f177.google.com ([209.85.220.177]:44639 "EHLO mail-qk0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751881AbeCWDex (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2018 23:34:53 -0400 Received: by mail-qk0-f177.google.com with SMTP id h14so11577600qkj.11 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:34:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:34:47 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Jiri Pirko Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, idosch@mellanox.com, mlxsw@mellanox.com, andrew@lunn.ch, vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com, michael.chan@broadcom.com, ganeshgr@chelsio.com, saeedm@mellanox.com, simon.horman@netronome.com, pieter.jansenvanvuuren@netronome.com, john.hurley@netronome.com, dirk.vandermerwe@netronome.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, ogerlitz@mellanox.com, dsahern@gmail.com, vijaya.guvva@cavium.com, satananda.burla@cavium.com, raghu.vatsavayi@cavium.com, felix.manlunas@cavium.com, gospo@broadcom.com, sathya.perla@broadcom.com, vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com, tariqt@mellanox.com, eranbe@mellanox.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 00/12] devlink: introduce port flavours and common phys_port_name generation Message-ID: <20180322203447.1e399382@cakuba.netronome.com> In-Reply-To: <20180322105522.8186-1-jiri@resnulli.us> References: <20180322105522.8186-1-jiri@resnulli.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:55:10 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Also, there is one extra port that I don't understand what > is the purpose for it - something nfp specific perhaps. Do you mean the PF netdev? There can be multiple of those on multi-host cards. There is one pf_repr from ASIC's perspective and a full-blown PF netdev which should be used by applications. pf_repr is only for switch config.