Subject: Re: [PATCH v20 08/22] cxl/sfc: Initialize dpa without a mailbox

From: Jonathan Cameron <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:52:33 +0000

On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:36:43 +0000
[email-masked] wrote:

> From: Alejandro Lucero <[email-masked]>
> 
> Type3 relies on mailbox CXL_MBOX_OP_IDENTIFY command for initializing
> memdev state params which end up being used for DPA initialization.
> 
> Allow a Type2 driver to initialize DPA simply by giving the size of its
> volatile hardware partition.
> 
> Move related functions to memdev.
> 
> Add sfc driver as the client.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Ben Cheatham <[email-masked]>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <[email-masked]>
> ---
Side note that it would be really handy when we are down to this last
version or so before merge to have a short change log in each patch
(here under the ---)  Saves a bunch of reviewer time checking back on what
we need to look out for when it might be trivial:
such as the patch description change in this one