netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/11] mlxsw: extend line card model by devices and info

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Date:   Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:45:48 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, pabeni@...hat.com, jiri@...dia.com,
        petrm@...dia.com, dsahern@...il.com, mlxsw@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/11] mlxsw: extend line card model by devices
 and info

> Well, I got your point. If the HW would be designed in the way the
> building blocks are exposed to the host, that would work. However, that
> is not the case here, unfortunatelly.

I'm with Jakub. It is the uAPI which matters here. It should look the
same for a SoC style enterprise router and your discombobulated TOR
router. How you talk to the different building blocks is an
implementation detail.

	Andrew