netdev - Re: [net-next 14/15] net/mlx5: Light probe local SFs

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Message-ID: <20230627082429.36100040@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 08:24:29 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Tariq Toukan
 <tariqt@...dia.com>, Shay Drory <shayd@...dia.com>, Moshe Shemesh
 <moshe@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 14/15] net/mlx5: Light probe local SFs

On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:12:10 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> $ sudo devlink port add pci/0000:08:00.0 flavour pcisf pfnum 0 sfnum 103
> pci/0000:08:00.0/32770: type eth netdev eth10 flavour pcisf controller 0 pfnum 0 sfnum 103 splittable false
>   function:
>     hw_addr 00:00:00:00:00:00 state inactive opstate detached
> 
> $ sudo devlink port function set pci/0000:08:00.0/32770 hw_addr AA:22:33:44:55:66 uuid SOMETHINGREALLYUNIQUE

Why does the user have to set the uuid? I was expecting it'd pop up 
on the port automatically, generated by the kernel, as a read-only
attribute.