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From:   Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:16:22 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] Adding GAUDI NIC code to habanalabs driver
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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        netdev@vger.kernel.org, SW_Drivers <SW_Drivers@habana.ai>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:01 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:11:11 +0300 Oded Gabbay wrote:
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi_nic.c
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi_nic.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi_nic_dcbnl.c
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi_nic_debugfs.c
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi_nic_ethtool.c
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi_phy.c
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_qm0_masks.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_qm0_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_qm1_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_qpc0_masks.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_qpc0_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_qpc1_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_rxb_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_rxe0_masks.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_rxe0_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_rxe1_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_stat_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_tmr_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_txe0_masks.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_txe0_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_txe1_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_txs0_masks.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_txs0_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic0_txs1_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic1_qm0_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic1_qm1_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic2_qm0_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic2_qm1_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic3_qm0_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic3_qm1_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic4_qm0_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/gaudi/asic_reg/nic4_qm1_regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/habanalabs/include/hw_ip/nic/nic_general.h
>
> The relevant code needs to live under drivers/net/(ethernet/).
> For one thing our automation won't trigger for drivers in random
> (/misc) part of the tree.

Can you please elaborate on how to do this with a single driver that
is already in misc ?
As I mentioned in the cover letter, we are not developing a
stand-alone NIC. We have a deep-learning accelerator with a NIC
interface.
Therefore, we don't have a separate PCI physical function for the NIC
and I can't have a second driver registering to it.

We did this design based on existing examples in the kernel
(registering to netdev), such as (just a few examples):
1. sgi-xp driver in drivers/misc/sgi-xp (see file xpnet.c)
2. bnx2fc in drivers/scsi/bnx2fc

Thanks,
Oded