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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 21:35:40 +0300
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@...il.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>, Leonid Bloch <lbloch@...dia.com>,
Itay Avraham <itayavr@...dia.com>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
Aron Silverton <aron.silverton@...cle.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] mlx5 ConnectX control misc driver
On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 07:06:53PM +0100, Edward Cree wrote:
> #include <disclaimer.h>
>
> On 04/04/2024 18:47, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > The configurables exist as they are
> > and need to be supported, in one way or another, by the kernel.
>
> Why? What does the kernel get out of it?
>
> Maybe *you* need them to be supported, but maybe you should have
> thought of that earlier in the design process. ("A failure on
> your part to foresee the eminently foreseeable does not
> constitute an emergency on mine.")
> If we let folks bypass our standards with a _fait accompli_, we
> don't really have standards in the first place.
Sorry, who are "we" and what are "our standards"?
And, please, please reread the thread, it is not about devlink at all.
Thanks
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