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Date:   Sat, 1 Feb 2020 09:43:02 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/15] devlink: add devres managed devlinkm_alloc and
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:51:10 -0800, Jacob Keller wrote:
> TL;DR; Yes, I'd like to have a single devlink for the device, but no, I
> don't have a good answer for how to do it sanely.

Ack, it not a new problem and I don't have a solution either :(

I don't think mlx5 has this distinction of only single/first PF being
able to perform device-wide updates so perhaps it's better to not
introduce that notion?