netdev - Re: [PATCH mlx5-next 07/25] net/mlx5: Update mlx5

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Date:   Thu, 20 Sep 2018 07:51:01 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        linux-netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mlx5-next 07/25] net/mlx5: Update mlx5_ifc with DEVX UID
 bits

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 11:31:47AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 02:04:00PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
> >
> > Add DEVX information to WQ, SRQ, CQ, TRI, TIS, QP,
> > RQ, XRCD, PD, MKEY and MCG.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/mlx5/mlx5_ifc.h | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> >  1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>
> It is weird that we sometimes have these IFC bundle updates and
> sometimes the IFC is inlined in the patch..
>
> Why not just do one big IFC only patch with everything the series
> needs?

Nothing fancy, this "ifc change" came from my need to put all mlx5-next
related code in separate patches from IB and those definitions were
sprinkled in all following IB-specific patches.

Thanks

>
> Jason

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