linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 00/14] sfc: add vDPA support for EF100 devices

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Message-ID: <20230409091325.GF14869@unreal>
Date:   Sun, 9 Apr 2023 12:13:25 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Gautam Dawar <gautam.dawar@....com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-net-drivers@....com, jasowang@...hat.com,
        Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@...il.com>,
        Martin Habets <habetsm.xilinx@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        eperezma@...hat.com, harpreet.anand@....com, tanuj.kamde@....com,
        koushik.dutta@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 00/14] sfc: add vDPA support for EF100 devices

On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 01:40:01PM +0530, Gautam Dawar wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> This series adds the vdpa support for EF100 devices.
> For now, only a network class of vdpa device is supported and
> they can be created only on a VF. Each EF100 VF can have one
> of the three function personalities (EF100, vDPA & None) at
> any time with EF100 being the default. A VF's function personality
> is changed to vDPA while creating the vdpa device using vdpa tool.

Jakub,

I wonder if it is not different approach to something that other drivers
already do with devlink enable knobs (DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_ID_ENABLE_*)
and auxiliary bus.

Thanks