netdev - Re: [PATCH 08/15] devlink: add devres managed devlinkm_alloc and devlinkm

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Message-ID: <20200201094302.7b6ed97a@cakuba.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>
Date:   Sat, 1 Feb 2020 09:43:02 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...nulli.us, valex@...lanox.com,
        linyunsheng@...wei.com, lihong.yang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/15] devlink: add devres managed devlinkm_alloc and
 devlinkm_free

On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:51:10 -0800, Jacob Keller wrote:
> TL;DR; Yes, I'd like to have a single devlink for the device, but no, I
> don't have a good answer for how to do it sanely.

Ack, it not a new problem and I don't have a solution either :(

I don't think mlx5 has this distinction of only single/first PF being
able to perform device-wide updates so perhaps it's better to not
introduce that notion?