Re: [PATCH for-next] RDMA/nldev: Add parent bdf to device information dump

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 09:41:22AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 09:49:11AM +0200, Gal Pressman wrote:
> > On 09/11/2020 19:57, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 11:03:47AM +0200, Gal Pressman wrote:
> > >
> > >>> The thing is, is is still useless. You have to consult sysfs to
> > >>> understand what bus it is scoped on to do anything further with
> > >>> it. Can't just assume it is PCI.
> > >>
> > >> This can be solved with Parav's suggestion.
> > >
> > > Now you are adding more stuff.
> > >
> > > What is wrong with reading sysfs? sysfs is where topology information
> > > lives, why do we need to denormalize things?
> >
> > And yet you have lspci so you don't have to dig through the sysfs files by hand
> > for that topology.
> > Please drop this patch.
>
> If you want to add something to rdma tool it can read sysfs and disply it

I tried it and it wasn't accepted well in netdev community.

Thanks

>
> Jason



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