Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 03:13:12PM CET, and...@lunn.ch wrote: >> I don't see any way. The userspace is the one who can get the info, from >> the i2c driver. The mlxsw driver has no means to get that info itself. > >Hi Jiri > >Please can you tell us more about this i2c driver. Do you have any >architecture pictures?
Quoting Vadim Pasternak: " Not upstreamed yet. It will be mlxreg-lc driver for line card in drivers/platfrom/mellanox and additional mlxreg-pm for line card powering on/off, setting enable/disable and handling power off upon thermal shutdown event. " > >It is not unknown for one driver to embed another driver inside it. So >the i2c driver could be inside the mlxsw. It is also possible to link >drivers together, the mlxsw could go find the i2c driver and make use >of its services. Okay. Do you have examples? How could the kernel figure out the relation of the instances? > > Andrew
