On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:12:23 -0800 Shannon Nelson wrote:

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Enough back and forth. I'm not going to come up with a special model
just for you when a model already exists, and you present no technical
argument against it.

I am against merging your code, if you want to override find other
vendors and senior upstream reviewers who will side with you.  

We're not asking for a special model, just to use the PF interface to 
configure VFs as has been the practice in the past.

It simply does not compute for me. You're exposing a very advanced vDPA
interface, and yet you say you don't need any network configuration
beyond what Niantic had.

There are no upstream-minded users of IPUs, if it was up to me I'd flat
out ban them from the kernel.

Anyway, this feature can wait and we can work out alternatives later. 
For now, we'll drop the netdev portion from the driver and rework the 
other bits as discussed in other messages.  I'll likely have a v2 for 
comments sometime next week.

Seems reasonable, if it doesn't live in networking and doesn't use any
networking APIs it won't matter to me.