netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 14/16] devlink: add macros for "fw.roce" and "board.nvm

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Date:   Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:12:52 +0530
From:   Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@...adcom.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 14/16] devlink: add macros for "fw.roce" and "board.nvm_cfg"

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:48 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 04:03:08 -0500, Michael Chan wrote:
> > --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst
> > @@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ board.manufacture
> >
> >  An identifier of the company or the facility which produced the part.
> >
> > +board.nvm_cfg
> > +-------------
> > +
> > +Non-volatile memory version of the board.
>
> Could you describe a little more detail? Sounds a little similar to
> fw.psid which Mellanox has added, perhaps it serves the same purpose
> and we could reuse that one?
It is almost similar. We can reuse and update documentation in
bnxt.rst mentioning
that parameter set is present in NVM .

Thanks.