RE: [RFC PATCH v4 10/25] RDMA/irdma: Add driver framework definitions

["Saleem, Shiraz" <shiraz.saleem@intel.com>]

> Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v4 10/25] RDMA/irdma: Add driver framework
> definitions
> 

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> > > > +static int irdma_devlink_reload_up(struct devlink *devlink,
> > > > +				   struct netlink_ext_ack *extack) {
> > > > +	struct irdma_dl_priv *priv = devlink_priv(devlink);
> > > > +	union devlink_param_value saved_value;
> > > > +	const struct virtbus_dev_id *id = priv->vdev->matched_element;
> > >
> > > Like irdma_probe(), struct iidc_virtbus_object *vo is accesible for
> > > the given
> > priv.
> > > Please use struct iidc_virtbus_object for any sharing between two drivers.
> > > matched_element modification inside the virtbus match() function and
> > > accessing pointer to some driver data between two driver through
> > > this matched_element is not appropriate.
> >
> > We can possibly avoid matched_element and driver data look up here.
> > But fundamentally, at probe time (see irdma_gen_probe) the irdma
> > driver needs to know which generation type of vdev we bound to. i.e. i40e or ice
> ?
> > since we support both.
> > And based on it, extract the driver specific virtbus device object,
> > i.e i40e_virtbus_device vs iidc_virtbus_object and init that device.
> >
> > Accessing driver_data off the vdev matched entry in
> > irdma_virtbus_id_table is how we know this generation info and make the
> decision.
> >
> If there is single irdma driver for two different virtbus device types, it is better to
> have two instances of virtbus_register_driver() with different matching string/id.
> So based on the probe(), it will be clear with virtbus device of interest got added.
> This way, code will have clear separation between two device types.

Thanks for the feedback!
Is it common place to have multiple driver_register instances of same bus type
in a driver to support different devices? Seems odd.
Typically a single driver that supports multiple device types for a specific bus-type
would do a single bus-specific driver_register and pass in an array of bus-specific
device IDs and let the bus do the match up for you right? And in the probe(), a driver could do device
specific quirks for the device types. Isnt that purpose of device ID tables for pci, platform, usb etc?
Why are we trying to handle multiple virtbus device types from a driver any differently?

Shiraz