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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:01:00 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Louis Peens <louis.peens@corigine.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
 Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>, Yinjun Zhang
 <yinjun.zhang@corigine.com>, Tianyu Yuan <tianyu.yuan@corigine.com>,
 netdev@vger.kernel.org, oss-drivers@corigine.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/12] nfp: add support for multi-pf
 configuration
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:48:09 +0200 Louis Peens wrote:
> This patch series is introducing multiple PFs for multiple ports NIC
> assembled with NFP3800 chip. This is done since the NFP3800 can
> support up to 4 PFs, and is more in-line with the modern expectation
> that each port/netdev is associated with a unique PF.
> 
> For compatibility concern with NFP4000/6000 cards, and older management
> firmware on NFP3800, multiple ports sharing single PF is still supported
> with this change. Whether it's multi-PF setup or single-PF setup is
> determined by management firmware, and driver will notify the
> application firmware of the setup so that both are well handled.

So every PF will have its own devlink instance?
Can you show devlink dev info output?