Re: [PATCH net-next 4/8] devlink: allow subports on devlink PCI ports

Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-01T16:04:12Z

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 08:25:57 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >> I think it would be beneficial to have the switchid shown for devlink
> >> ports too. Then it is clean that the devlink ports with the same
> >> switchid belong to the same switch, and other ports under the same
> >> devlink instance (like PF itself) is separate, but still under the same
> >> ASIC.
> >
> >Sure, you mean in terms of UI - user space can do a link dump or get
> >that from sysfs, right?
>
> I thinking about moving it to devlink. I'll work on it more today.

At the kernel level? Are we sure this is appropriate? I'd think
switchid is in essence a forwarding attribute, so it belongs with
netdevs, no?