RE: [net-next v5 03/15] devlink: Introduce PCI SF port flavour and port attribute

[Parav Pandit]

> From: Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2020 1:18 AM
> So the SF is always created from the eswitch controller side?
> How does the host side look?
>
Host side creates the auxiliary device for the SF.

$ ls -l /sys/bus/auxiliary/devices/
mlx5_core.sf.4 -> 
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:06:00.0/mlx5_core.sf.4
 
> I really think that for ease of merging this we should leave the remote
> controller out at the beginning - only allow local creation.
> 
Alright. I will drop remote controller attribute of SF in this patchset.