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From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 4/6] mlx4: Implement devlink interface
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:43:53 +0200
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On 2/3/2016 12:48 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Implement newly introduced devlink interface. Add devlink port instances
> for every port and set the port types accordingly.
>

Lets see how to use the newly introduced interface in a way which would 
allow us to get a configuration
profile from user-space and program it to the firmware. This is generic 
problem for other drivers too - we've triedsolving it with configfs in 
the past but the patches were not accepted.

Or.