netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] Devlink regions for SJA1105 DSA driver

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Date:   Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:44:41 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "vivien.didelot@...il.com" <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        "kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "cphealy@...il.com" <cphealy@...il.com>,
        "jiri@...dia.com" <jiri@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] Devlink regions for SJA1105 DSA driver

On 9/21/20 11:12 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 07:12:32PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 07:27:39PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
>>> This series exposes the SJA1105 static config as a devlink region. This
>>> can be used for debugging, for example with the sja1105_dump user space
>>> program that I have derived from Andrew Lunn's mv88e6xxx_dump:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/vladimiroltean/mv88e6xxx_dump/tree/sja1105
>>
>> Maybe i should rename the project dsa_dump?
> 
> I was unsure if you want to maintain that as a larger project.
> 

Cannot this be part of ethtool or iproute2 at some point and we just
have each driver author submit pretty printers for the registers?
-- 
Florian