This is not a generic i2c bus, but rather an indirect access to i2c devices 
through FM10k registers. It's only purpose is to support the fm10k chip. Also 
there's currently no i2c bus support framework in DPDK.

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From: Jerin Jacob [mailto:jerinjac...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:48 PM
To: Xiaojun Liu
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/7] net/fm10k: add i2c sbus registers 
definition

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 3:22 PM Xiaojun Liu <xiaojun....@silicom.co.il> wrote:
>
> To support switch management, add the following files:
> Add fm10k/switch/fm10k_debug.h(define log Macros).
> Add fm10k/switch/fm10k_regs.h(define all the registers).
> Add fm10k/switch/fm10k_switch.h(define switch Macros and APIs).
> Add fm10k/switch/fm10k_i2c.h(define I2C interfaces).
> Add fm10k/switch/fm10k_i2c.c(support I2C access).
> Add fm10k/switch/fm10k_sbus.h(define SBUS interface).
> Add fm10k/switch/fm10k_sbus.c(support SBUS access).
> and modify fm10k/Makefile(add ENABLE_FM10K_MANAGEMENT support,
> add fm10k_i2c.c and fm10k_sbus.c).

Integrating NIC with the integrated or onboard switches over i2c or
sbus is a common problem.
Instead of polluting ethdev driver with i2c and sbus _bus_ code, Why
not add new i2c bus
and move this code to driver/bus/i2c/xxxx/

>
> To avoid configuration for both kernel driver
> and userspace SDK outside DPDK, we add switch
> management in FM10K DPDK PMD driver.
> To enable switch management, you need add
> CONFIG_RTE_FM10K_MANAGEMENT=y in
> config/common_linux when building.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiaojun Liu <xiaojun....@silicom.co.il>

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