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Date:   Tue, 15 Aug 2023 21:26:19 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To:     Jijie Shao <shaojijie@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] net: hns3: Support tlv in regs data for
 HNS3 VF driver
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 02:06:40PM +0800, Jijie Shao wrote:
> The dump register function is being refactored.
> The third step in refactoring is to support tlv info in regs data for
> HNS3 PF driver.
> 
> Currently, if we use "ethtool -d" to dump regs value,
> the output is as follows:
>   offset1: 00 01 02 03 04 05 ...
>   offset2：10 11 12 13 14 15 ...
>   ......
> 
> We can't get the value of a register directly.
> 
> This patch deletes the original separator information and
> add tag_len_value information in regs data.
> ethtool can parse register data in key-value format by -d command.
> 
> a patch will be added to the ethtool to parse regs data
> in the following format:
>   reg1 : value2
>   reg2 : value2
>   ......
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jijie Shao <shaojijie@huawei.com>
> ---
>  .../hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_regs.c      | 85 +++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>