On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 14:31:11 +0300 Danielle Ratson wrote: > Currently, user has no way of knowing if a port can be split and into > how many ports. > > Among other things, it is currently impossible to write generic tests > for port split. > > In order to be able to expose the information regarding the split > capability to user space, set the required attributes and pass them to > netlink. > > Patch 1: Move set attribute from devlink_port_attrs to devlink_port. > Patch 2: Move switch_port attribute from devlink_port_attrs to devlink_port > Patch 3: Replace devlink_port_attrs_set parameters with a struct. > Patch 4: Set and initialize lanes attribute in the driver. > Patch 5: Add lanes attribute to devlink port and pass to netlink. > Patch 6: Set and initialize splittable attribute in the driver. > Patch 7: Add splittable attribute to devlink port and pass them to netlink. > Patch 8: Add a split port test.
Since we have the splitability and number of lanes now understood by the core - can the code also start doing more input checking?
