Re: [patch net-next RFC 00/12] devlink: introduce port flavours and common phys_port_name generation

Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 04:34:47AM CET, jakub.kicinski@netronome.com wrote:

On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:55:10 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:

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Also, there is one extra port that I don't understand what
is the purpose for it - something nfp specific perhaps.

Do you mean the PF netdev?  There can be multiple of those on
multi-host cards.  There is one pf_repr from ASIC's perspective and a
full-blown PF netdev which should be used by applications.  pf_repr is
only for switch config.

Got it.