From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, pabeni@redhat.com,
jiri@nvidia.com, petrm@nvidia.com, dsahern@gmail.com,
mlxsw@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/11] mlxsw: extend line card model by devices and info
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 09:37:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YmjyywZ1U8U5svzu@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YmgOuUPy9Digezvh@lunn.ch>
Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 05:24:41PM CEST, andrew@lunn.ch wrote:
>> Does not make sense to me at all. Line cards are detachable PHY sets in
>> essence, very basic functionality. They does not have buffers, health
>> and params, I don't think so.
>
>Ido recently added support to ethtool to upgrade the flash in SFPs.
>They are far from simple devices. Some of the GPON ones have linux
>running in them, that you can log in to.
>
>The real question is, can you do everything you need to do via
>existing uAPIs like ethtool and hwmon.
No, it does not fit. Ethtool works with netdevices which are
instantiated for separate port. The disconnection between what we can do
with netdev as a handle and how the devices are modeled was the reason
for devlink introduction in the past.
>
> Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-27 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-25 3:44 [PATCH net-next 00/11] mlxsw: extend line card model by devices and info Ido Schimmel
2022-04-25 3:44 ` [PATCH net-next 01/11] devlink: introduce line card devices support Ido Schimmel
2022-04-25 3:44 ` [PATCH net-next 02/11] devlink: introduce line card info get message Ido Schimmel
2022-04-25 3:44 ` [PATCH net-next 03/11] devlink: introduce line card device info infrastructure Ido Schimmel
2022-04-25 3:44 ` [PATCH net-next 04/11] mlxsw: reg: Extend MDDQ by device_info Ido Schimmel
2022-04-25 3:44 ` [PATCH net-next 05/11] mlxsw: core_linecards: Probe provisioned line cards for devices and attach them Ido Schimmel
2022-04-25 3:44 ` [PATCH net-next 06/11] selftests: mlxsw: Check devices on provisioned line card Ido Schimmel
2022-04-25 3:44 ` [PATCH net-next 07/11] mlxsw: core_linecards: Expose HW revision and INI version Ido Schimmel
2022-04-25 3:44 ` [PATCH net-next 08/11] selftests: mlxsw: Check line card info on provisioned line card Ido Schimmel
2022-04-25 3:44 ` [PATCH net-next 09/11] mlxsw: reg: Extend MDDQ device_info by FW version fields Ido Schimmel
2022-04-25 3:44 ` [PATCH net-next 10/11] mlxsw: core_linecards: Expose device FW version over device info Ido Schimmel
2022-04-25 3:44 ` [PATCH net-next 11/11] selftests: mlxsw: Check device info on activated line card Ido Schimmel
2022-04-25 9:50 ` [PATCH net-next 00/11] mlxsw: extend line card model by devices and info patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2022-04-25 16:00 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-04-25 19:39 ` Ido Schimmel
2022-04-25 19:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-04-26 6:57 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-04-26 12:11 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-04-26 12:36 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-04-26 12:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-04-26 14:00 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-04-26 14:51 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-04-27 7:35 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-04-27 14:14 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-04-29 11:51 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-04-29 18:45 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-04-29 19:29 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-04-29 22:38 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-04-30 6:27 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-02 14:39 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-23 9:42 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-23 17:56 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-24 6:46 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-24 14:31 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-24 18:00 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-25 6:20 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-25 15:50 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-26 9:05 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-26 10:47 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-26 11:45 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-26 17:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-27 7:27 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-28 0:10 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-28 9:09 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-28 19:02 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-29 9:23 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-30 19:54 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-31 7:11 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-31 15:05 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-31 15:51 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-31 16:08 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-31 19:34 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-31 22:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-06-01 7:35 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-28 15:58 ` David Ahern
2022-05-29 9:24 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-05-31 2:11 ` David Ahern
2022-05-31 7:05 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-04-26 15:24 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-04-27 7:37 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2022-04-26 6:47 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-04-26 12:27 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-04-26 12:41 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-04-26 13:45 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-04-26 14:05 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-04-26 15:36 ` Andrew Lunn
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