netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next 00/12] nfp: add support for multi-pf configuration

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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:28:29 +0000
From: Yinjun Zhang <yinjun.zhang@...igine.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC: Louis Peens <louis.peens@...igine.com>, David Miller
	<davem@...emloft.net>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman
	<simon.horman@...igine.com>, Tianyu Yuan <tianyu.yuan@...hogine.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, oss-drivers
	<oss-drivers@...igine.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 00/12] nfp: add support for multi-pf
 configuration

On Wednesday, July 26, 2023 12:17 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 02:00:30 +0000 Yinjun Zhang wrote:
> > > >   serial_number UKAAMDA2000-100122190023
> > >
> > > >   serial_number UKAAMDA2000-100122190023
> > >
> > > Since it's clearly a single ASIC shouldn't it have a single devlink
> > > instance?
> >
> > But there're more than one PCI device now. Isn't it universal
> implementation
> > to register a devlink for each PCI device?
> 
> It's only the prevailing implementation because people are too lazy to
> implement things correctly, if you ask me. devlink doesn't have the
> ability to bind to multiple bus devices, that would need to be
> addressed.

It sounds like a separate topic to refine devlink infrastructure.