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From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC iproute2-next] devlink: add info subcommand
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:58:15 -0800
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:00:46 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> I could have a line card implementing a port which has version
> information, as well as version information for the backplane which
> would be under dev.

I'd argue a line card is not a port, so adding port info for line cards
is, again, taking a step backward towards unclear semantics.  Line cards
are a very well understood concept, and they deserve their own
handling.  And ports may _belong_ to line cards.