netdev - Re: [patch net-next 01/11] devlink: introduce nested devlink entity for line card

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Date:   Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:37:53 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, idosch@...dia.com,
        petrm@...dia.com, pabeni@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        mlxsw@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 01/11] devlink: introduce nested devlink entity
 for line card

On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:33:16 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>
> 
> For the purpose of exposing device info and allow flash updated which is
> going to be implemented in follow-up patches, introduce a possibility
> for a line card to expose relation to nested devlink entity. The nested
> devlink entity represents the line card.
> 
> Example:
> 
> $ devlink lc show pci/0000:01:00.0 lc 1
> pci/0000:01:00.0:
>   lc 1 state active type 16x100G nested_devlink auxiliary/mlxsw_core.lc.0
>     supported_types:
>        16x100G
> $ devlink dev show auxiliary/mlxsw_core.lc.0
> auxiliary/mlxsw_core.lc.0
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

Thanks!