Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v4 02/10] octeontx2-pf: RVU representor driver

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 20:35:00 -0700

On Tue, 7 May 2024 22:09:13 +0530 Geetha sowjanya wrote:
> This patch adds basic driver for the RVU representor.
> Driver on probe does pci specific initialization and does hw
> resources configuration.
> Introduces RVU_ESWITCH kernel config to enable/disable
> this driver. Representor and NIC shares the code but representors
> netdev support subset of NIC functionality. Hence "otx2_rep_dev"
> api helps to skip the features initialization that are not supported
> by the representors.

It's quite unusual to have a separate PCI device for representors.
Why not extend the existing PF driver?
This driver spawns no netdevs by default?