netdev - Re: [RFC 0/3] Adding config get/set to devlink

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Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:40:32 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:     Steve Lin <steven.lin1@...adcom.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        michael.chan@...adcom.com, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, gospo@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Adding config get/set to devlink

Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 04:35:10PM CEST, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 6:34 AM, Steve Lin <steven.lin1@...adcom.com> wrote:
>> Adds a devlink command for getting & setting device configuration
>> parameters, and enumerates a bunch of those parameters as devlink
>> attributes.  Also introduces an attribute that can be set by a
>> driver to indicate that the config change doesn't take effect
>> until the next restart (as in the case of the bnxt driver changes
>> in this patchset, for which all the configuration changes affect NVM
>> only, and aren't loaded until the next restart.)
>>
>> bnxt driver patches make use of these new devlink cmds/attributes.
>>
>> Steve Lin (3):
>>   devlink: Add config parameter get/set operations
>>   bnxt: Move generic devlink code to new file
>>   bnxt: Add devlink support for config get/set
>>
>
>Is the goal here to move all ethtool operations to devlink (I saw some
>attrs related to speed etc). ?.
>We do need to move ethtool attrs to netlink and devlink is a good
>place (and of-course leave the current ethtool api around for backward
>compatibility).

We need to make sure we are not moving things to devlink which don't
belong there. All options that use "netdev" as a handle should go into
rtnetlink instead.