netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/1] ice: do not abort devlink info if PBA can't be found

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Message-ID: <20210819095325.5694e925@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Thu, 19 Aug 2021 09:53:25 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Tony Brelinski <tonyx.brelinski@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] ice: do not abort devlink info if PBA can't be
 found

On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 10:46:59 -0700 Tony Nguyen wrote:
> From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
> 
> The devlink dev info command reports version information about the
> device and firmware running on the board. This includes the "board.id"
> field which is supposed to represent an identifier of the board design.
> The ice driver uses the Product Board Assembly identifier for this.

Since I'm nit picking I would not use PBA in the subject 'cause to most
devs this means pending bit array.