Re: [PATCH 00/15] soc: octeontx2: Add RVU admin function driver

[Andrew Lunn]

> > > My feeling overall is that we need a review from the network driver
> > > folks more than the arm-soc team etc, and that maybe the driver
> > > as a whole should go into drivers/net/ethernet.
> >
> > This driver doesn't handle any network IO and moreever this driver has to handle
> > configuration requests from crypto driver as well. There will be
> > separate network and
> > crypto drivers which will be upstreamed into drivers/net/ethernet and
> > drivers/crypto.
> > And in future silicons there will be different types of functional
> > blocks which will be
> > added into this resource virtualization unit (RVU). Hence i thought
> > this driver is not a
> > right fit in drivers/net/ethernet.

Hi Sunil

Do you have a git branch for everything? I would like to look at the
actual Ethernet driver, and the full API this driver exports to other
drivers.

I think there real question here is, do you have split between this
driver and the actual device drivers in the right place? For me, link
up/down detection should be in the Ethernet driver, since it is not
shared with the crypto driver.

       Thanks
	Andrew