netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 14/16] devlink: add macros for "fw.roce" and "board.nvm

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Date:   Mon, 27 Jan 2020 06:25:18 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@...adcom.com>
Cc:     Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 14/16] devlink: add macros for "fw.roce" and
 "board.nvm_cfg"

On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:12:52 +0530, Vasundhara Volam wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:48 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 04:03:08 -0500, Michael Chan wrote:  
> > > --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst
> > > +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst
> > > @@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ board.manufacture
> > >
> > >  An identifier of the company or the facility which produced the part.
> > >
> > > +board.nvm_cfg
> > > +-------------
> > > +
> > > +Non-volatile memory version of the board.  
> >
> > Could you describe a little more detail? Sounds a little similar to
> > fw.psid which Mellanox has added, perhaps it serves the same purpose
> > and we could reuse that one?  
> It is almost similar. We can reuse and update documentation in
> bnxt.rst mentioning
> that parameter set is present in NVM .

Thanks!