netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/7] devlink: Add permanent config parameter get/set operations

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Date:   Wed, 18 Oct 2017 14:58:25 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Steve Lin <steven.lin1@...adcom.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
        John Linville <linville@...driver.com>,
        Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] devlink: Add permanent config parameter get/set
 operations

Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:39:09PM CEST, steven.lin1@...adcom.com wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 3:11 AM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:
>> Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 10:44:23PM CEST, steven.lin1@...adcom.com wrote:
>> Steve. As I originally requested, could you please split this to:
>> 1) single patch adding config get/set commands, without any config attributes
>> 2) single patch per config attribute - please don't add them in bulk.
>>    We also need very strict description for every single attribute so
>>    other vendors know what it is and can re-use it. There is need to
>>    avoid duplication here. Also, please send just few attribites in the
>>    first run, not like 40 you are sending now. Impossible to review.
>
>I broke the patch set up into functional blocks of attributes, in
>order to avoid having ~40 patches of just a couple lines each.  But, I
>will split further for each individual attribute, and just submit a
>few initially, per your request.
>
>>
>> Also, why didn't you put it into nested attribute we were discussing?
>>
>
>I thought I did :) , using the DPIPE_HEADERS nested attribute as an
>example.  I'll reach out to you off-list to understand what I'm
>missing.

I missed that. But you need a separate attr enum as well.