netdev - Re: [net-next v4 00/15] Add mlx5 subfunction support

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Message-ID: <0af4731d-0ccb-d986-d1f7-64e269c4d3ec@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 14 Dec 2020 19:44:31 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
        Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
        "Ertman, David M" <david.m.ertman@...el.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@...el.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next v4 00/15] Add mlx5 subfunction support

On 12/14/20 6:53 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> example subfunction usage sequence:
>> -----------------------------------
>> Change device to switchdev mode:
>> $ devlink dev eswitch set pci/0000:06:00.0 mode switchdev
>>
>> Add a devlink port of subfunction flaovur:
>> $ devlink port add pci/0000:06:00.0 flavour pcisf pfnum 0 sfnum 88
> 
> Typo in your description. Also I don't know if you want to stick with
> "flavour" or just shorten it to the U.S. spelling which is "flavor".

The term exists in devlink today (since 2018). When support was added to
iproute2 I decided there was no reason to require the US spelling over
the British spelling, so I accepted the patch.