Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Add devlink regions support

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:08:07AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 8/16/20 12:43 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Make use of devlink regions to allow read access to some of the
> > internal of the switches. The switch itself will never trigger a
> > region snapshot, it is assumed it is performed from user space as
> > needed.
> > 
> > Andrew Lunn (7):
> >   net: dsa: Add helper to convert from devlink to ds
> >   net: dsa: Add devlink regions support to DSA
> >   net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Move devlink code into its own file
> >   net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Create helper for FIDs in use
> >   net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Add devlink regions
> >   net: dsa: wire up devlink info get
> >   net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Implement devlink info get callback
> 
> Andrew, do you mind copying all DSA maintainers on this patch series
> since it potentially affects other drivers given the standard
> representation you want to see adopted?

Hi Florian

I'm not proposing anything standard at all here. This is all specific
to the mv88e6xxx. As i pointed out to Vladimir, devlink regions are
supposed to be very device or driver specific.

	 Andrew