netdev - Re: [net-next 15/15] net/mlx5: Implement management PF Ethernet profile

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Message-ID: <20240104144446.1200b436@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 14:44:46 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>
Cc: "Nelson, Shannon" <shannon.nelson@....com>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>, Armen Ratner
 <armeng@...dia.com>, Daniel Jurgens <danielj@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 15/15] net/mlx5: Implement management PF Ethernet
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:25:33 -0800 Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> Maybe we should have made it clear here as well, this management PF just
> exposes a netdev on the embedded ARM that will be used to communicate
> with the device onboard BMC via NC-SI, so it meant to be used
> only by standard tools.

How's that different to any other BMC via NC-SI setup?
NC-SI is supposed to steal packets which were directed to the wire.