netdev - Re: [PATCH v8 01/27] cxl: add type2 device basic support

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Message-ID: <67a568a18a432_2d2c294b5@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 17:57:53 -0800
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To: Alejandro Lucero Palau <alucerop@....com>, Dan Williams
	<dan.j.williams@...el.com>, <alejandro.lucero-palau@....com>,
	<linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<martin.habets@...inx.com>, <edward.cree@....com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<kuba@...nel.org>, <pabeni@...hat.com>, <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	<dave.jiang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 01/27] cxl: add type2 device basic support

Alejandro Lucero Palau wrote:
[..]
> Anyway, if you have look at v10, I have modified the accel driver 
> allocation for state using the memdev state instead which makes more 
> sense to me. I did use that from your original patch, but it makes 
> things complicated and a Type2 is a memdev after all. The code is 
> cleaner and simpler now.

Let's pick up this conversation on patch1. Note that
to_cxl_memdev_state() returns NULL when the type is CXL_DEVTYPE_DEVMEM,
so I am confused why cxl_memdev_state is relevant to accelerators,
especially ones without memory device mailboxes.