netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/7] net: devlink: Add unused port flavour

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Date:   Thu, 1 Oct 2020 09:39:37 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/7] net: devlink: Add unused port flavour

Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 04:53:57PM CEST, andrew@...n.ch wrote:
>> What do you mean by "regions"? Devlink regions? They are per-device, not
>> per-port. I have to be missing something.
>
>The rest of the patch series, which add regions per port! This came

Okay. Sorry about that. netdev ml kicked me out so I didn't receive
emails from it for couple of days :/


>out of the discussion from the first version of this patchset, and
>Jakub said it would make sense to add per port regions, rather than
>have regions which embedded a port number in there name.

For sure. If something is per-port, should be per-port. I agree.

>
>     Andrew
>