netdev - Re: [patch net-next 00/11] mlxsw: Implement dev info and dev flash for line cards

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Date:   Fri, 17 Jun 2022 23:12:20 -0700
From:   Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        petrm@...dia.com, pabeni@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        mlxsw@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 00/11] mlxsw: Implement dev info and dev flash
 for line cards



On 6/15/22 10:40 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 11:13:35AM CEST, idosch@...dia.com wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 02:33:15PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>
>>>
>>> This patchset implements two features:
>>> 1) "devlink dev info" is exposed for line card (patches 3-8)
>>> 2) "devlink dev flash" is implemented for line card gearbox
>>>     flashing (patch 9)
>>>
>>> For every line card, "a nested" auxiliary device is created which
>>> allows to bind the features mentioned above (patch 2).
>>
[...]>>
>>>
>>> The relationship between line card and its auxiliary dev devlink
>>> is carried over extra line card netlink attribute (patches 1 and 3).
>>>
>>> Examples:
>>>
>>> $ 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
>>
>> Can we try to use the index of the line card as the identifier of the
>> auxiliary device?
> 
> Not really. We would have a collision if there are 2 mlxsw instances.
> 

Can you encode the base device's PCI info into the auxiliary device's id
to make it unique?  Or maybe have each mlxsw instance have a unique ida 
value to encode in the linecard auxiliary device id?

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