Re: [PATCH net-next V4 02/14] documentation: networking: add shared devlink documentation

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2025 11:36:13 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >To be clear -- I understand how you're laying things out. My point is
> >not about that. My question is how can user make intuitive sense of this
> >mess of random object floating around. Every SW engineering problem can
> >be solved by another layer of abstraction, that's not the challenge. 
> >The challenge is to design those layers so that they make intuitive
> >sense (to people who don't spend their life programming against mlx FW
> >interfaces).  
> 
> Well, this really has no relation to mlx FW interfaces. It is a generic
> issue of having multiple PFs backed by 1 physical device sharing
> resources. How to make things more intuitive, I don't know :/ Any
> suggestion?

We're talking in circles. Having a single devlink instance for the
"1 physical device" is far more intuitive than stringing together
ports from two devlink instances by using a third instance.