From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
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,
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next 0/5] devlink: introduce port flavours and common phys_port_name generation
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 14:16:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180518141649.30f90d59@cakuba> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180518072904.29523-1-jiri@resnulli.us>
On Fri, 18 May 2018 09:28:59 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
>
> This patchset resolves 2 issues we have right now:
> 1) There are many netdevices / ports in the system, for port, pf, vf
> represenatation but the user has no way to see which is which
> 2) The ndo_get_phys_port_name is implemented in each driver separatelly,
> which may lead to inconsistent names between drivers.
>
> This patchset introduces port flavours which should address the first
> problem. In this initial patchset, I focus on DSA and their port
> flavours. As a follow-up, I plan to add PF and VF representor flavours.
> However, that needs additional dependencies in drivers (nfp, mlx5).
>
> The common phys_port_name generation is used by mlxsw. An example output
> for mlxsw looks like this:
FWIW this series LGTM!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-18 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-18 7:28 [patch net-next 0/5] devlink: introduce port flavours and common phys_port_name generation Jiri Pirko
2018-05-18 7:29 ` [patch net-next 1/5] devlink: introduce devlink_port_attrs_set Jiri Pirko
2018-05-18 7:29 ` [patch net-next 2/5] devlink: extend attrs_set for setting port flavours Jiri Pirko
2018-05-18 7:29 ` [patch net-next 3/5] devlink: introduce a helper to generate physical port names Jiri Pirko
2018-05-18 7:29 ` [patch net-next 4/5] dsa: set devlink port attrs for dsa ports Jiri Pirko
2018-05-18 7:29 ` [patch net-next 5/5] mlxsw: use devlink helper to generate physical port name Jiri Pirko
2018-05-18 21:16 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2018-05-19 3:34 ` [patch net-next 0/5] devlink: introduce port flavours and common phys_port_name generation Florian Fainelli
2018-05-19 20:31 ` David Miller
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