Re: [RFC net-next v2 1/2] devlink: add whole device devlink instance

[Jacob Keller]

On 2/24/2025 5:03 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 02:45:12AM +0100, kuba@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:32:54 +0100 Przemek Kitszel wrote:
>>> Thanks to Wojciech Drewek for very nice naming of the devlink instance:
>>> PF0:		pci/0000:00:18.0
>>> whole-dev:	pci/0000:00:18
>>> But I made this a param for now (driver is free to pass just "whole-dev").
>>
>> Which only works nicely if you're talking about functions not full
>> separate links :) When I was thinking about it a while back my
>> intuition was that we should have a single instance, just accessible
>> under multiple names. But I'm not married to that direction if there
>> are problems with it.
> 
> I kind of agree. Like multiple channels to one entity, each labeled by a
> different name (handle in devlink case).
> 

This might actually also help alleviate some of the uAPI concerns too?
Since the original names would access the instance.