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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Kalesh A P <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, jiri@nvidia.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	edwin.peer@broadcom.com, michael.chan@broadcom.com,
	Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] devlink enhancements
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 09:36:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210802093622.17c29268@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210802042740.10355-1-kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>

On Mon,  2 Aug 2021 09:57:38 +0530 Kalesh A P wrote:
> From: Kalesh AP <kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com>
> 
> This patchset adds device capability reporting to devlink info API.
> It may be useful if we expose the device capabilities to the user
> through devlink info API.

Did you see the RFC Jake posted? That's way more palatable.

Operationally the API provided here is of little to no value 
to the user, and since it extends the "let the vendors dump custom
meaningless strings" paradigm present in devlink please expect 
major push back.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-02 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-02  4:27 Kalesh A P
2021-08-02  4:27 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] devlink: add device capability reporting to devlink info API Kalesh A P
2021-08-02  4:27 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] bnxt_en: Add device capabilities to devlink info_get cb Kalesh A P
2021-08-02 16:36 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2021-08-02 19:41   ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] devlink enhancements Keller, Jacob E

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