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

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Message-ID: <92eb67e6578ccc3f0f3b88a58e72da0383d3e5b0.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 19 Aug 2021 20:59:51 +0000
From:   "Nguyen, Anthony L" <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
To:     "kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>
CC:     "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
        "Brelinski, TonyX" <tonyx.brelinski@...el.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] ice: do not abort devlink info if PBA can't be
 found

On Thu, 2021-08-19 at 09:53 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 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.

Will split this up and move away from using PBA.

Thanks,
Tony