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Message-ID: <08a85083-8c61-8ca5-e860-2b051c043229@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 07:37:27 +0100
From: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@...il.com>
To: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>, edward.cree@....com
Cc: linux-net-drivers@....com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 3/9] net: ethtool: record custom RSS contexts
 in the XArray

On 20/06/2024 07:32, Przemek Kitszel wrote:
> On 6/20/24 07:47, edward.cree@....com wrote:
>> From: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@...il.com>
>>
>> Since drivers are still choosing the context IDs, we have to force the
>>   XArray to use the ID they've chosen rather than picking one ourselves,
>>   and handle the case where they give us an ID that's already in use.
> 
> Q: This is a new API, perhaps you could force adopters to convert to
> not choosing ID and switching to allocated one?

Yes, that's exactly what the next patch (#4) does, when it introduces
 the new API.

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