netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] devlink: Add support for region access

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Message-ID: <20180329182343.GB12150@lunn.ch>
Date:   Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:23:43 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@...lsio.com>,
        Alex Vesker <valex@...lanox.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] devlink: Add support for region access

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 07:07:43PM +0300, Alex Vesker wrote:
> This is a proposal which will allow access to driver defined address
> regions using devlink. Each device can create its supported address
> regions and register them. A device which exposes a region will allow
> access to it using devlink.

Hi Alex

Did you see the work Rahul Lakkireddy has been doing?

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10305935/

It seems like these are similar, or at least overlapping. We probably
want one solution for both.

     Andrew