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

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Message-ID: <CAC8NTUUdZSuNtjczBvEZPaAbzaP4rWyR9fDOWC9mdMHEqiEVNw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:00:49 -0800
From:   Radha Mohan <mohun106@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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, Nov 24, 2021 at 7:27 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

SDP is our System DMA Packet Interface which sends/receives network
packets to NIX block. It is similar to CGX, LBK blocks but only
difference is the medium being PCIe. So if you have accepted that I
believe you can accept this as well.

>
> The pleasure I have from marking this as rejected is slightly
> undermined by the fact that the patch isn't even correctly formatted :/
Apologies for that. Something messed up the tabs to spaces. I can
correct that in next version.