netdev - Re: [for-next 4/6] net/mlx5: FPGA, Add basic support for Innova

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Date:   Tue, 06 Jun 2017 11:50:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ilant@...lanox.com
Cc:     jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com,
        saeedm@....mellanox.co.il, dledford@...hat.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        jsorensen@...com, andy.shevchenko@...il.com,
        linux-fpga@...r.kernel.org, atull@...nsource.altera.com,
        yi1.li@...ux.intel.com, borisp@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [for-next 4/6] net/mlx5: FPGA, Add basic support for Innova

From: Ilan Tayari <ilant@...lanox.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 06:52:15 +0000

> The fact that we configure the FPGA using special inband packets isn't
> changing anything. IMO, it might have been any other bus on the card,
> standard or proprietary, and the arguments for how to design the driver
> would stay the same.

+1

> So neither the host stack nor the network are aware of them.
> They exist momentarily only on the internal traces on the board and not
> anywhere else.

+1