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From:   Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
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> From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 9:36 PM
>=20
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 04:13:51 -0500 Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > > 3. Why not use ioctl() interface?
> > > >
> > > > Obviously I'm gonna ask you - why can't you use devlink?
> > > >
> > > This was considered.
> > > However it seems that extending devlink for vdpa specific stats, devi=
ces,
> config sounds overloading devlink beyond its defined scope.
> >
> > kuba what's your thinking here? Should I merge this as is?
>=20
> No objections from me if people familiar with VDPA like it.

I was too occupied with the recent work on subfunction series.
I wanted to change the "parentdev" to "mgmtdev" to make it little more clea=
r for vdpa management tool to see vdpa mgmt device and operate on it.
What do you think? Should I revise v2 or its late?