netdev - Re: [PATCH V8 net-next 00/22] Huawei HiNIC Ethernet Driver

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Message-ID: <f0b00e85-3cc0-1b80-94d4-41c7ab58dc15@huawei.com>
Date:   Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:46:24 +0300
From:   Aviad Krawczyk <aviad.krawczyk@...wei.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <bc.y@...wei.com>,
        <victor.gissin@...wei.com>, <zhaochen6@...wei.com>,
        <tony.qu@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 net-next 00/22] Huawei HiNIC Ethernet Driver

Hi,

> It's clear that ...

Sorry, but there are wrong assumptions here.

Thanks,
Aviad

On 8/23/2017 1:37 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Aviad Krawczyk
> <aviad.krawczyk@...wei.com> wrote:
>> Hi Arnd,
>>
>> This is Huawei's PCIE HiNIC card.
>>
>> I am not familiar with the HiSilicon product and I don't see how
>> Huawei's PCIE HiNIC card is connected to the HiSilicon drivers on Linux Tree.
>>
>> I don't see how it can be shared: different product and different code.
> 
> Sharing code was just a wild thought of mine, as I said I had not looked at
> whether there is anything that can be shared.
> 
> However, simply moving drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic to
> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hinic/ still seems to be the right thing and
> is a trivial patch.
> 
> It's clear that hinic is made by HiSilicon and that hns/hns3 are used
> exclusively in Huawei, and maintained by Huawei developers, so it's
> probably just a matter of time before the IP block from the SoC makes
> it into a future PCI device or vice versa. Merging the two directories
> now makes this easier to handle in the future and (slightly) reduces
> the clutter in the top-level drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig file.
> 
>      Arnd
> 
> .
>