> >> One of the motivations for introducing devlink interface was to allow > >> user to pass some kind of well defined option parameters or as you call > >> it hints to driver module. That would allow to replace module options > >> and introduce similar possibility to pre-configure hardware on probe time. > >> We plan to use devlink to allow user to change resource allocation for > >> mlxsw devices. > > > > >Is IOV configuration something you're going to explore in the near > >future for mlxsw devices? Or are you merely pointing out that
> No, not sriov related directly. > >devlink could provide a superior configuration infrastrucutre and > >should be investigated as a better alternative? > Exactly. It is a general problem of how to pre-configure driver modules. > >> The plan is to allow to pre-create devlink instance before driver module > >> is loaded. Then the user will use this placeholder to do the options > >> setting. Once the driver module is loaded, it will fetch the options > >> from devlink core and process it accordingly. > > > >> I believe this is exactly what you need. > Adding devlink support is trivial in most cases, I bet you can do it in > couple of minutes for your driver. I'll go and educate myself, then. Thanks.
