netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] devlink: Support get,set mac address of a port function

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Date:   Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:29:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     parav@...lanox.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, saeedm@...lanox.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        jiri@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] devlink: Support get,set mac address of a
 port function

From: Parav Pandit <parav@...lanox.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 03:32:46 +0000

> Currently, ip link set dev <pfndev> vf <vf_num> <param> <value> has
> below few limitations.
> 
> 1. Command is limited to set VF parameters only.
> It cannot set the default MAC address for the PCI PF.
> 
> 2. It can be set only on system where PCI SR-IOV capability exists.
> In smartnic based system, eswitch of a NIC resides on a different
> embedded cpu which has the VF and PF representors for the SR-IOV
> functions of a host system in which this smartnic is plugged-in.
> 
> 3. It cannot setup the function attributes of sub-function described
> in detail in comprehensive RFC [1] and [2].
> 
> This series covers the first small part to let user query and set MAC
> address (hardware address) of a PCI PF/VF which is represented by
> devlink port pcipf, pcivf port flavours respectively.
> 
> Whenever a devlink port manages a function connected to a devlink port,
> it allows to query and set its hardware address.
> 
> Driver implements necessary get/set callback functions if it supports
> port function for a given port type.
 ...

Series applied, thank you.