netdev - Re: [patch net-next RFC 4/6] mlx4: Implement devlink interface

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Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:51:10 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, idosch@...lanox.com,
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 4/6] mlx4: Implement devlink interface

Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 05:43:53PM CET, ogerlitz@...lanox.com wrote:
>On 2/3/2016 12:48 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>Implement newly introduced devlink interface. Add devlink port instances
>>for every port and set the port types accordingly.
>>
>
>Lets see how to use the newly introduced interface in a way which would allow
>us to get a configuration
>profile from user-space and program it to the firmware. This is generic
>problem for other drivers too - we've triedsolving it with configfs in the
>past but the patches were not accepted.

That we plan to do for mlxsw as well via devlink. That will be in a
follow-up patchset.