netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next iproute2 2/2] devlink: Introduce devlink port flavour virtual

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Date:   Wed, 4 Mar 2020 12:48:16 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Parav Pandit <parav@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stephen@...workplumber.org, dsahern@...nel.org, jiri@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next iproute2 2/2] devlink: Introduce devlink port
 flavour virtual

On 3/3/20 9:06 PM, Parav Pandit wrote:
> Currently PCI PF and VF devlink devices register their ports as
> physical port in non-representors mode.
> 
> Introduce a new port flavour as virtual so that virtual devices can
> register 'virtual' flavour to make it more clear to users.
> 
> An example of one PCI PF and 2 PCI virtual functions, each having
> one devlink port.
> 
> $ devlink port show
> pci/0000:06:00.0/1: type eth netdev ens2f0 flavour physical port 0
> pci/0000:06:00.2/1: type eth netdev ens2f2 flavour virtual port 0
> pci/0000:06:00.3/1: type eth netdev ens2f3 flavour virtual port 0
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@...lanox.com>
> ---
>  devlink/devlink.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
applied to iproute2-next. Thanks