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The reason for the separation is to be able >>> to offload the control plane to the host different from where the data >>> plane is running. >>> >>> This is the first phase in the release of this driver where we implement the >>> initialization of the core PCI driver. Subsequent phases will implement >>> advanced features like usage of idpf ethernet aux device, link management, >>> NVM update via devlink, switchdev port representors, data and exception path, >>> flow rule programming, etc. >> >> Hi Larysa, >> >> I am having a bit of trouble figuring out where to cleanly apply this >> series to. Could you help me out? > > Tree did change quite a bit in a short span of time between me fetching and > sending, sorry for the trouble. > > The base commit is 10f540c09cf9 "ice: default to TIME_REF instead of TXCO on > E825-C". In case you cannot access it, I have pushed the tree to my github. > > https://github.com/walking-machine/linux/commits/ixd_phase1_iwl_v3 > > This version is probably much closer to what would be in dev-queue eventually, > compared to a properly rebased one. Some patches were pulled out of dev-queue > because of validation problems, but should be back pretty soon, as far as I > know. Those patches are the reason why I have an additional fix in the github > tree. Thanks for sharing the info! I think we also have been holding off on putting stuff onto dev-queue because of the conflicts, and wanting to finish up some of the existing series. That's resulted in a lot of back and forth as some of the larger refactors have a lot of places to conflict.