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Message-ID: <20250320135049.GW280585@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:50:49 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/4] net/mlx5: Expose serial numbers in devlink
info
On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 12:39:59PM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 06:38:58PM +0100, horms@...nel.org wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 04:36:25PM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>
> >>
> >> Devlink info allows to expose serial number and board serial number
> >> Get the values from PCI VPD and expose it.
> >>
> >> $ devlink dev info
> >> pci/0000:08:00.0:
> >> driver mlx5_core
> >> serial_number e4397f872caeed218000846daa7d2f49
> >> board.serial_number MT2314XZ00YA
> >
> >Hi Jiri,
> >
> >I'm sorry if this is is somehow obvious, but what is
> >the difference between the serial number and board serial number
> >(yes, I do see that they are different numbers :)
>
> Quoting Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-info.rst:
>
> * - ``serial_number``
> - Serial number of the device.
>
> This is usually the serial number of the ASIC, also often available
> in PCI config space of the device in the *Device Serial Number*
> capability.
>
> The serial number should be unique per physical device.
> Sometimes the serial number of the device is only 48 bits long (the
> length of the Ethernet MAC address), and since PCI DSN is 64 bits long
> devices pad or encode additional information into the serial number.
> One example is adding port ID or PCI interface ID in the extra two bytes.
> Drivers should make sure to strip or normalize any such padding
> or interface ID, and report only the part of the serial number
> which uniquely identifies the hardware. In other words serial number
> reported for two ports of the same device or on two hosts of
> a multi-host device should be identical.
>
> * - ``board.serial_number``
> - Board serial number of the device.
>
> This is usually the serial number of the board, often available in
> PCI *Vital Product Data*.
Thanks, I should have known that :)
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