Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC net-next 1/2] devlink: expose port function commands to assign VFs to multiple netdevs

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 19:30:14 -0800

On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 02:14:27 +0000 Yinjun Zhang wrote:
> I understand in switchdev mode, the fine-grained manipulation by TC can do it.
> While legacy has fixed forwarding rule, and we hope it can be implemented without
> too much involved configuration from user if they only want legacy forwarding.
> 
> As multi-port mapping to one PF NIC is scarce, maybe we should implement is as
> vendor specific configuration, make sense?

Vendor extension or not we are disallowing adding configuration 
for legacy SR-IOV mode. We want people to move to switchdev mode,
otherwise we'll have to keep extending both for ever.