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Message-ID: <20230131211228.78dae343@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 21:12:28 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@...adcom.com>, leon@...nel.org
Cc: andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com, davem@...emloft.net,
edumazet@...gle.com, jgg@...pe.ca, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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selvin.xavier@...adcom.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v9 0/8] Add Auxiliary driver support
On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:25:49 -0800 Ajit Khaparde wrote:
> Add auxiliary device driver for Broadcom devices.
> The bnxt_en driver will register and initialize an aux device
> if RDMA is enabled in the underlying device.
> The bnxt_re driver will then probe and initialize the
> RoCE interfaces with the infiniband stack.
>
> We got rid of the bnxt_en_ops which the bnxt_re driver used to
> communicate with bnxt_en.
> Similarly We have tried to clean up most of the bnxt_ulp_ops.
> In most of the cases we used the functions and entry points provided
> by the auxiliary bus driver framework.
> And now these are the minimal functions needed to support the functionality.
>
> We will try to work on getting rid of the remaining if we find any
> other viable option in future.
Better :)
Leon, looks good to you as well?
Note to DaveM/self - this needs to be pulled rather than applied:
> The following are changes since commit 90e8ca0abb05ada6c1e2710eaa21688dafca26f2
> Merge branch 'devlink-next'
> and are available in the git repository at:
> https://github.com/ajitkhaparde1/net-next/tree/aux-bus-v9
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