Hi Thomas Monjalon, Thank you for your review and for guiding me on the mailing list workflow.
> Please could you send your new series as a reply of the v1 cover letter? > It would avoid having a large indent in mail clients. Got it. I will configure git send-email with "--in-reply-to" bound to the v1 cover letter Message-ID for the next version of this patch set. Apologies for the inconvenience caused by the deep threading. > Also I'm still waiting for a reply to my question about the need > for drivers/common/sxe2/. > I'm not going to pull any sxe2 patch into main until you explain. Regarding the necessity of the "drivers/common/sxe2/" directory, the sxe2 hardware architecture is designed to support both standard NIC and vDPA (vHost Data Path Acceleration) functionalities. The code currently placed in "drivers/common/sxe2/" contains the foundational Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), firmware interfaces (AdminQ), and common register definitions. Apart from the "net/sxe2" PMD in this series, we are actively implementing the "vdpa/sxe2" driver, which will be submitted in a subsequent patch set. Both the "net/sxe2" and "vdpa/sxe2" drivers strictly depend on this shared common HAL layer to manage the same hardware core. Separating this code into "drivers/common/" is essential to prevent massive code duplication between the net and vdpa subsystems in the near future. Please let me know if this clarifies your concern. Once confirmed, I will send out the updated v15 series as a reply to the v1 cover letter immediately. Best regards, Jie Liu ([email protected]) [email protected] From: Thomas Monjalon Date: 2026-06-09 16:42 To: Jie Liu CC: stephen; dev Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 00/20] net/sxe2: added Linkdata sxe2 ethernet driver 09/06/2026 03:39, [email protected]: > From: Jie Liu <[email protected]> > > This patch set implements core functionality for the SXE2 PMD, > including basic driver framework, data path setup, and advanced > offload features (VLAN, RSS,TM, PTP etc.). > > V14: > - Addressed AI comments Please could you send your new series as a reply of the v1 cover letter? It would avoid having a large indent in mail clients. Also I'm still waiting for a reply to my question about the need for drivers/common/sxe2/. I'm not going to pull any sxe2 patch into main until you explain.
