On 2020-10-12 19:24 +0800, Coiby Xu wrote: [...] > > I think, but didn't check in depth, that in those drivers, the devlink > > device is tied to the pci device and can exist independently of the > > netdev, at least in principle. > > > You are right. Take drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw as an example, > devlink reload would first first unregister_netdev and then > register_netdev but struct devlink stays put. But I have yet to > understand when unregister/register_netdev is needed. Maybe it can be useful to manually recover if the hardware or driver gets in an erroneous state. I've used `modprobe -r qlge && modprobe qlge` for the same in the past. > Do we need to > add "devlink reload" for qlge? Not for this patchset. That would be a new feature. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
