Re: [PATCH 4/7] devlink: Adding perm config of link settings
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: 2017-10-18 13:01:10
Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:39:42PM CEST, steven.lin1@broadcom.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 3:31 AM, Jiri Pirko [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
You need to split the config option to those that are per-port and to those that are per-asic. For each family, you have to use ither devlink_port of devlink handle. Also, you need to split into those that are permanent and to those who are teporary (until reset). I think you might need some flags for that.All these are permanent; none are temporary - that's (partially) why we consider these to be devlink/device parameters rather than a netdev/ethtool thing, since they take effect after the next reset and before any drivers are loaded (i.e. the card uses these parameters for its default/startup configuration).
Understood. But I think that this iface should be capable to serve the options of non-permanent as well. Or this could be 2 separate interfaces with 2 separate cmd pair. Thoughts?
I will take a closer look at splitting these between per-port and per-asic. Thanks, Steve