RE: [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] enetc: Introduce basic PF and VF ENETC ethernet drivers

[Claudiu Manoil]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2018 8:06 PM
>To: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@xxxxxxx>
>Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
>kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Alexandru Marginean
><alexandru.marginean@xxxxxxx>; Catalin Horghidan
><catalin.horghidan@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] enetc: Introduce basic PF and VF ENETC
>ethernet drivers
>
>On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 01:06:01PM +0000, Claudiu Manoil wrote:
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2018 2:21 AM
>> >To: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@xxxxxxx>
>> >Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Alexandru
>> >Marginean <alexandru.marginean@xxxxxxx>; Catalin Horghidan
>> ><catalin.horghidan@xxxxxxx>
>> >Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] enetc: Introduce basic PF and VF ENETC
>> >ethernet drivers
>> >
>> >From: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@xxxxxxx>
>> >Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 20:15:31 +0200
>> >
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/Makefile
>> >b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/Makefile
>> >> index 3b4ff08..20e5c2f9 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/Makefile
>> >> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/Makefile
>> >> @@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FSL_FMAN) += fman/
>> >>  obj-$(CONFIG_FSL_DPAA_ETH) += dpaa/
>> >>
>> >>  obj-$(CONFIG_FSL_DPAA2_ETH) += dpaa2/
>> >> +obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_FREESCALE) += enetc/
>> >
>> >The driver enable Kconfig option should guard traversing into the
>> >driver subdirectory, not the vendor enable Kconfig knob.
>>
>> The enetc/ dir contains 2 drivers, that share a lot of common code.
>> Would you agree if I change the vendor enable with the two configs
>> (one for each driver) as below?
>>
>> -obj-$(CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_FREESCALE) += enetc/
>> +obj-$(CONFIG_FSL_ENETC) += enetc/
>> +obj-$(CONFIG_FSL_ENETC_VF) += enetc/
>
>CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_FREESCALE should hide/show all Freescale drivers.
>
>Once you show all Freescale drivers, there should be an option to
>enable each individual driver.
>
>Does the ENETC_VF driver depend on the ENETC driver? If so, when
>CONFIG_FSL_ENETC is enabled, the CONFIG_FSL_ENETC_VF should be
>unhidden.
>

The two drivers are independent as can be seen from enetc/Makefile.
E.g., in a virtualized env you can have a linux instance (guest) containing
only the VF driver.
Sending v3 with the above mentioned change.