Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] ionic: register auxiliary devices from a table of device types
From: Simon Horman
Date: Mon Nov 09 2026 - 14:27:04 EST
On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 06:14:46PM +0000, Nikhil P. Rao wrote:
> A later patch adds a hardware monitoring auxiliary device alongside the
> rdma one. Describe the auxiliary device types in a table, so that adding
> one takes an enum value and a table entry.
>
> Allocate the auxiliary device id once per ionic device instead of on
> every add, so all of a device's auxiliary devices share one id, for
> example ionic.rdma.0 and ionic.hwmon.0.
>
> Reviewed-by: Brett Creeley <brett.creeley@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nikhil P. Rao <nikhil.rao@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>