netdev - Re: [patch net-next 0/5] devlink: introduce port flavours and common phys_port

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Date:   Sat, 19 May 2018 16:31:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:     jiri@...nulli.us, netdev@...r.kernel.org, idosch@...lanox.com,
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next 0/5] devlink: introduce port flavours and
 common phys_port_name generation

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 20:34:25 -0700

> On 05/18/2018 12:28 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
>> 
>> This patchset resolves 2 issues we have right now:
>> 1) There are many netdevices / ports in the system, for port, pf, vf
>>    represenatation but the user has no way to see which is which
>> 2) The ndo_get_phys_port_name is implemented in each driver separatelly,
>>    which may lead to inconsistent names between drivers.
>> 
>> This patchset introduces port flavours which should address the first
>> problem. In this initial patchset, I focus on DSA and their port
>> flavours. As a follow-up, I plan to add PF and VF representor flavours.
>> However, that needs additional dependencies in drivers (nfp, mlx5).
>> 
>> The common phys_port_name generation is used by mlxsw. An example output
>> for mlxsw looks like this:
 ...
> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

Series applied, thanks everyone.