[PATCH 01/15] net: hbl_cn: add habanalabs Core Network driver

[Omer Shpigelman]

On 6/17/24 14:48, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 08:08:26AM +0000, Omer Shpigelman wrote:
>> On 6/13/24 16:01, Przemek Kitszel wrote:
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>>> On 6/13/24 10:21, Omer Shpigelman wrote:
>>>> Add the hbl_cn driver which will serve both Ethernet and InfiniBand
>>>> drivers.
>>>> hbl_cn is the layer which is used by the satellite drivers for many shared
>>>> operations that are needed by both EN and IB subsystems like QPs, CQs etc.
>>>> The CN driver is initialized via auxiliary bus by the habanalabs driver.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Omer Shpigelman <oshpigelman at habana.ai>
>>>> Co-developed-by: Abhilash K V <kvabhilash at habana.ai>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Abhilash K V <kvabhilash at habana.ai>
>>>> Co-developed-by: Andrey Agranovich <aagranovich at habana.ai>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Agranovich <aagranovich at habana.ai>
>>>> Co-developed-by: Bharat Jauhari <bjauhari at habana.ai>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Bharat Jauhari <bjauhari at habana.ai>
>>>> Co-developed-by: David Meriin <dmeriin at habana.ai>
>>>> Signed-off-by: David Meriin <dmeriin at habana.ai>
>>>> Co-developed-by: Sagiv Ozeri <sozeri at habana.ai>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Sagiv Ozeri <sozeri at habana.ai>
>>>> Co-developed-by: Zvika Yehudai <zyehudai at habana.ai>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Zvika Yehudai <zyehudai at habana.ai>
>>>> ---
>>>>   .../device_drivers/ethernet/index.rst         |    1 +
>>>>   .../device_drivers/ethernet/intel/hbl.rst     |   82 +
>>>>   MAINTAINERS                                   |   11 +
>>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig            |   20 +
>>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Makefile           |    1 +
>>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/hbl_cn/Makefile    |    9 +
>>>>   .../net/ethernet/intel/hbl_cn/common/Makefile |    3 +
>>>>   .../net/ethernet/intel/hbl_cn/common/hbl_cn.c | 5954 +++++++++++++++++
>>>>   .../net/ethernet/intel/hbl_cn/common/hbl_cn.h | 1627 +++++
>>>>   .../ethernet/intel/hbl_cn/common/hbl_cn_drv.c |  220 +
>>>>   .../intel/hbl_cn/common/hbl_cn_memory.c       |   40 +
>>>>   .../ethernet/intel/hbl_cn/common/hbl_cn_phy.c |   33 +
>>>>   .../ethernet/intel/hbl_cn/common/hbl_cn_qp.c  |   13 +
>>>>   include/linux/habanalabs/cpucp_if.h           |  125 +-
>>>>   include/linux/habanalabs/hl_boot_if.h         |    9 +-
>>>>   include/linux/net/intel/cn.h                  |  474 ++
>>>>   include/linux/net/intel/cn_aux.h              |  298 +
>>>>   include/linux/net/intel/cni.h                 |  636 ++
>>>>   18 files changed, 9545 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> this is a very big patch, it asks for a split; what's worse, it's
>>> proportional to the size of this series:
>>>  146 files changed, 148514 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)
>>> which is just too big
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, well I'm limited to 15 patches per patch set according to the kernel
>> doc so I had to have this big patch.
>> Our changes are contained in 4 different drivers and all of the changes
>> should be merged together so the HW will be operational.
>> Hence I had to squeeze some code to a big patch.
> 
> Submit your code in multiple steps. One driver at a time.
> 
> Thanks

I can push each driver at a time but it is missing the big context. Every
single driver is useless without the others (or at least a subset of
them).
But I'll do that anyway so it will be possible to review.
Thanks.