linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] Adding GAUDI NIC code to habanalabs driver

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Message-Id: <20200915.153449.1384323730053933155.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:34:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     oded.gabbay@...il.com
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, SW_Drivers@...ana.ai,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] Adding GAUDI NIC code to habanalabs driver

From: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:20:12 +0300

> I completely understand but you didn't answer my question. How come
> there are drivers which create netdev objects, and specifically sgi-xp
> in misc (but I also saw it in usb drivers) that live outside
> drivers/net ? Why doesn't your request apply to them as well ?

Don't use examples of drivers doing the wrong thing as an excuse for
you to repeat the mistake.

Ok?

That kind of argument doesn't work here.