linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v4.1] rds: Expose feature parameters via sysfs (and ELF)

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Message-ID: <182b7c26-2573-40df-9bfc-663dd53a394d@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:45:23 +0200
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc: allison.henderson@...cle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com, tj@...nel.org,
 andrew@...n.ch, hannes@...xchg.org, mkoutny@...e.com,
 cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4.1] rds: Expose feature parameters via sysfs
 (and ELF)

On 6/26/25 1:30 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> IOW applying this patch is a bit of a leap of faith that RDS
> upstreaming will restart. I don't have anything against the patch
> per se, but neither do I have much faith in this. So if v5 is taking 
> a long time to get applied it will be because its waiting for DaveM or
> Paolo to take it.

I agree with the above. I think that to accept this patch we need it to
be part of a series actually introducing new features and/or deprecating
existing one. And likely deprecating new features without introducing
new ones will make little sense.

Thanks,

Paolo