[PATCH v14 00/20] net/sxe2: added Linkdata sxe2 ethernet driver

[Thomas Monjalon]

09/06/2026 11:48, liujie5 at linkdatatechnology.com:
> Hi Thomas Monjalon,
> 
> Thank you for your review and for guiding me on the mailing list workflow.
> 
> > Please could you send your new series as a reply of the v1 cover letter?
> > It would avoid having a large indent in mail clients.
> 
> Got it. I will configure git send-email with "--in-reply-to" bound to the 
> v1 cover letter Message-ID for the next version of this patch set. 
> Apologies for the inconvenience caused by the deep threading.
> 
> > Also I'm still waiting for a reply to my question about the need
> > for drivers/common/sxe2/.
> > I'm not going to pull any sxe2 patch into main until you explain.
> 
> Regarding the necessity of the "drivers/common/sxe2/" directory, the sxe2 
> hardware architecture is designed to support both standard NIC and vDPA 
> (vHost Data Path Acceleration) functionalities. 
> 
> The code currently placed in "drivers/common/sxe2/" contains the foundational 
> Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), firmware interfaces (AdminQ), and common 
> register definitions. 
> 
> Apart from the "net/sxe2" PMD in this series, we are actively implementing the 
> "vdpa/sxe2" driver, which will be submitted in a subsequent patch set. Both the 
> "net/sxe2" and "vdpa/sxe2" drivers strictly depend on this shared common HAL 
> layer to manage the same hardware core. Separating this code into "drivers/common/" 
> is essential to prevent massive code duplication between the net and vdpa 
> subsystems in the near future.
> 
> Please let me know if this clarifies your concern. Once confirmed, I will 
> send out the updated v15 series as a reply to the v1 cover letter immediately.

OK thank you, it's clear.