On Wed, 3 Dec 2025 11:36:13 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:

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To be clear -- I understand how you're laying things out. My point is
not about that. My question is how can user make intuitive sense of this
mess of random object floating around. Every SW engineering problem can
be solved by another layer of abstraction, that's not the challenge. 
The challenge is to design those layers so that they make intuitive
sense (to people who don't spend their life programming against mlx FW
interfaces).  

Well, this really has no relation to mlx FW interfaces. It is a generic
issue of having multiple PFs backed by 1 physical device sharing
resources. How to make things more intuitive, I don't know :/ Any
suggestion?

We're talking in circles. Having a single devlink instance for the
"1 physical device" is far more intuitive than stringing together
ports from two devlink instances by using a third instance.