Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:39:42PM CEST, steven.l...@broadcom.com wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 3:31 AM, Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote:
>>
>> 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

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