On Fri, 18 May 2018 09:28:59 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: > From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> > > This patchset resolves 2 issues we have right now: > 1) There are many netdevices / ports in the system, for port, pf, vf > represenatation but the user has no way to see which is which > 2) The ndo_get_phys_port_name is implemented in each driver separatelly, > which may lead to inconsistent names between drivers. > > This patchset introduces port flavours which should address the first > problem. In this initial patchset, I focus on DSA and their port > flavours. As a follow-up, I plan to add PF and VF representor flavours. > However, that needs additional dependencies in drivers (nfp, mlx5). > > The common phys_port_name generation is used by mlxsw. An example output > for mlxsw looks like this:
FWIW this series LGTM!
