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From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
To: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 16/19] ionic: Add netdev-event handling
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:24:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190830152422.7787e71d@cakuba.netronome.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <336eacda-27ae-d513-7888-429e34e29b76@pensando.io>

On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:36:23 -0700, Shannon Nelson wrote:
> On 8/29/19 4:37 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:27:17 -0700, Shannon Nelson wrote:  
> >> When the netdev gets a new name from userland, pass that name
> >> down to the NIC for internal tracking.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>  
> > There is a precedent in ACPI for telling the FW what OS is running but
> > how is the interface name useful for the firmware I can't really tell.  
> It is so we can correlate the host's interface name with the internal 
> port data for internal logging.

Okay.. honestly brings back too many bad memories of arguing with
engineers who spent their lives building middle boxes..

I just hope this won't spread.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-30 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-29 18:27 [PATCH v6 net-next 00/19] ionic: Add ionic driver Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 01/19] devlink: Add new info version tags for ASIC and FW Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 22:33   ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 02/19] ionic: Add basic framework for IONIC Network device driver Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 22:38   ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-30 19:02     ` Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 03/19] ionic: Add hardware init and device commands Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 04/19] ionic: Add port management commands Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 22:46   ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-30 19:18     ` Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 05/19] ionic: Add basic lif support Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 06/19] ionic: Add interrupts and doorbells Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 07/19] ionic: Add basic adminq support Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 22:52   ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-30 19:31     ` Shannon Nelson
2019-08-30 22:16       ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-30 22:17         ` David Miller
2019-08-30 23:18           ` Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 08/19] ionic: Add adminq action Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 09/19] ionic: Add notifyq support Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 10/19] ionic: Add the basic NDO callbacks for netdev support Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 11/19] ionic: Add management of rx filters Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 12/19] ionic: Add Rx filter and rx_mode ndo support Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 23:06   ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-30 19:35     ` Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 13/19] ionic: Add async link status check and basic stats Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 14/19] ionic: Add initial ethtool support Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 23:10   ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-30 21:25     ` Shannon Nelson
2019-08-30 22:16       ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-09-01 19:52         ` Andrew Lunn
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 15/19] ionic: Add Tx and Rx handling Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 23:18   ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-30 23:57     ` Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 23:33   ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-30 21:44     ` Shannon Nelson
2019-08-30 22:21       ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 16/19] ionic: Add netdev-event handling Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 23:37   ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-30 21:36     ` Shannon Nelson
2019-08-30 22:24       ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 17/19] ionic: Add driver stats Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 18/19] ionic: Add RSS support Shannon Nelson
2019-08-29 18:27 ` [PATCH v6 net-next 19/19] ionic: Add coalesce and other features Shannon Nelson

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