Re: [RFC] net: core: devlink: add port_params_ops for devlink port parameters altering

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Fri Apr 09 2021 - 14:37:13 EST


On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 20:01:14 +0300 Vadym Kochan wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 09:51:13AM -0700, Samudrala, Sridhar wrote:
> > On 4/9/2021 9:22 AM, Oleksandr Mazur wrote:
> > > I'd like to discuss a possibility of handling devlink port parameters
> > > with devlink port pointer supplied.
> > >
> > > Current design makes it impossible to distinguish which port's parameter
> > > should get altered (set) or retrieved (get) whenever there's a single
> > > parameter registered within a few ports.
> >
> > I also noticed this issue recently when trying to add port parameters and
> > I have a patch that handles this in a different way. The ops in devlink_param
> > struct can be updated to include port_index as an argument
>
> We were thinking on this direction but rather decided to have more strict
> cb signature which reflects that we are working with devlink_port only.

+1 for passing the actual pointer