Hello: This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main) by Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:03:54 +0100 you wrote: > From: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]> > > Multiple PFs on a network adapter often reside on the same physical > chip, running a single firmware. Some resources and configurations > are inherently shared among these PFs - PTP clocks, VF group rates, > firmware parameters, and others. Today there is no good object in > the devlink model to attach these chip-wide configuration knobs to. > Drivers resort to workarounds like pinning shared state to PF0 or > maintaining ad-hoc internal structures (e.g., ice_adapter) that are > invisible to userspace. > > [...] Here is the summary with links: - [net-next,v4,01/13] devlink: expose devlink instance index over netlink https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/68deca0f0f4b - [net-next,v4,02/13] devlink: add helpers to get bus_name/dev_name https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/0f5531879afb - [net-next,v4,03/13] devlink: avoid extra iterations when found devlink is not registered https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/e2e3666fd360 - [net-next,v4,04/13] devlink: allow to use devlink index as a command handle https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/d85a8af57da8 - [net-next,v4,05/13] devlink: support index-based lookup via bus_name/dev_name handle https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/725d5fdb7b9c - [net-next,v4,06/13] devlink: support index-based notification filtering https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/089aeb4f2218 - [net-next,v4,07/13] devlink: introduce __devlink_alloc() with dev driver pointer https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/eb32a6310a7b - [net-next,v4,08/13] devlink: add devlink_dev_driver_name() helper and use it in trace events https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/20b0f383aae7 - [net-next,v4,09/13] devlink: add devl_warn() helper and use it in port warnings https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/104733e1303e - [net-next,v4,10/13] devlink: allow devlink instance allocation without a backing device https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/a4c6d53e5fd6 - [net-next,v4,11/13] devlink: introduce shared devlink instance for PFs on same chip https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/1850e76b3804 - [net-next,v4,12/13] documentation: networking: add shared devlink documentation https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/63fff8c0f702 - [net-next,v4,13/13] net/mlx5: Add a shared devlink instance for PFs on same chip https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/2a8c8a03f306 You are awesome, thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot. https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html
