On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:39:30 +0200 Ido Schimmel wrote:
> From: Danielle Ratson <daniel...@nvidia.com>
>
> The switch ASIC has a limited capacity of physical ('flavour physical'
> in devlink terminology) ports that it can support. While each system is
> brought up with a different number of ports, this number can be
> increased via splitting up to the ASIC's limit.
>
> Expose physical ports as a devlink resource so that user space will have
> visibility to the maximum number of ports that can be supported and the
> current occupancy.
Any thoughts on making this a "generic" resource?
The limitation on number of logical ports is pretty common for switches.
