From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
pabeni@redhat.com, saeedm@nvidia.com, leon@kernel.org,
tariqt@nvidia.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org,
donald.hunter@gmail.com, parav@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] devlink: add function unique identifier to devlink dev info
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 04:49:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250325044929.5b3947c6@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250320085947.103419-4-jiri@resnulli.us>
On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:59:46 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
>
> Presently, for multi-PF NIC each PF reports the same serial_number and
> board.serial_number.
>
> To universally identify a function, add function unique identifier (uid)
> to be obtained from the driver as a string of arbitrary length.
We need more explanation for the "why"; this:
+ * - ``function.uid``
+ - Function uniqueue identifier.
+
+ Vendor defined uniqueue identifier of a function.
is really below bar in terms of documentation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-25 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-20 8:59 [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] net/mlx5: Expose additional devlink dev info Jiri Pirko
2025-03-20 8:59 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] ynl: devlink: add missing board-serial-number Jiri Pirko
2025-03-23 17:47 ` Simon Horman
2025-03-24 4:08 ` Kalesh Anakkur Purayil
2025-03-20 8:59 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] net/mlx5: Expose serial numbers in devlink info Jiri Pirko
2025-03-23 17:47 ` Simon Horman
2025-03-24 4:07 ` Kalesh Anakkur Purayil
2025-03-25 11:46 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-03-31 13:06 ` Jiri Pirko
2025-03-31 16:22 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-04-01 9:01 ` Jiri Pirko
2025-04-01 14:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-03-20 8:59 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] devlink: add function unique identifier to devlink dev info Jiri Pirko
2025-03-23 17:47 ` Simon Horman
2025-03-24 4:06 ` Kalesh Anakkur Purayil
2025-03-25 11:49 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-03-20 8:59 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] net/mlx5: Expose function UID in devlink info Jiri Pirko
2025-03-23 17:48 ` Simon Horman
2025-03-24 4:05 ` Kalesh Anakkur Purayil
2025-03-23 12:00 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] net/mlx5: Expose additional devlink dev info Tariq Toukan
2025-03-25 12:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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