netdev - Re: [PATCH] octeontx2-nicvf: Add netdev interface support for SDP VF devices

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Message-ID: <20211124192710.438657ca@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Nov 2021 19:27:10 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Radha Mohan <mohun106@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        sgoutham@...vell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] octeontx2-nicvf: Add netdev interface support for SDP
 VF devices

On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 18:21:04 -0800 Radha Mohan wrote:
> This patch adds netdev interface for SDP VFs. This interface can be used
> to communicate with a host over PCIe when OcteonTx is in PCIe Endpoint
> mode.

All your SDP/SDK/management interfaces do not fit into our netdev 
model of the world and should be removed upstream.

The pleasure I have from marking this as rejected is slightly
undermined by the fact that the patch isn't even correctly formatted :/