Re: [PATCH iwl-next v3 00/15] Introduce iXD driver

[Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>]

On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 03:21:58PM +0200, Larysa Zaremba wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 01:49:06PM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 03:42:57PM +0200, Larysa Zaremba wrote:
> > > This patch series adds the iXD driver, which supports the Intel(R)
> > > Control Plane PCI Function on Intel E2100 and later IPUs and FNICs.
> > > It facilitates a centralized control over multiple IDPF PFs/VFs/SFs
> > > exposed by the same card. 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

Thanks. I did not have that commit present locally, but I was able
to fetch it from the URL above. And the series did indeed apply cleanly
on top of it.

> 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.

Understood.