linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 11/15] net: pse-pd: Add support for PSE device index

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Message-ID: <20250109170957.1a4bad9c@kmaincent-XPS-13-7390>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 17:09:57 +0100
From: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>, Andrew Lunn
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 11/15] net: pse-pd: Add support for PSE
 device index

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 07:59:26 -0800
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:18:05 +0100 Kory Maincent wrote:
> > From: Kory Maincent (Dent Project) <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
> > 
> > Add support for a PSE device index to report the PSE controller index to
> > the user through ethtool. This will be useful for future support of power
> > domains and port priority management.  
> 
> This index is not used in the series, I see later on you'll add power
> evaluation strategy but that also seems to be within a domain not
> device?
> 
> Doesn't it make sense to move patches 11-14 to the next series?
> The other 11 patches seem to my untrained eye to reshuffle existing
> stuff, so they would make sense as a cohesive series.

Indeed PSE index is used only as user information but there is nothing
correlated. You are right maybe we can add PSE index when we have something
usable for it.

Regards,
-- 
Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com