netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4] net: psample: Introduce stubs to remove NIC driver dependency

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Date:   Tue, 9 Feb 2021 12:49:35 +0200
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] net: psample: Introduce stubs to remove NIC
 driver dependency

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 12:01 PM Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 11:25:33AM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 8:49 AM Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > [..]
> >
> > > This is another problem with mlx5 - complete madness with config options
> > > that are not possible to test.
> > > ➜  kernel git:(rdma-next) grep -h "config MLX" drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Kconfig | awk '{ print $2}' | sort |uniq |wc -l
> > > 19
> >
> > wait, why do you call it madness? we were suggested by some users (do
> > git blame for the patches) to refine things with multiple configs and it seem
> > to work quite well  -- what you don't like? and what's wrong with simple grep..
>
> Yes, I aware of these users and what and why they asked it.
>
> They didn't ask us to have new config for every feature/file, but to have
> light ethernet device.
>
> Other users are distributions and they enable all options that supported in
> the specific kernel they picked, because they don't know in advance where their
> distro will be used.
>
> You also don't have capacity to test various combinations, so you
> test only small subset of common ones that are pretty standard. This is why
> you have this feeling of "work quite well".

ok, point taken

> And I'm not talking about compilations but actual regression runs.

understood

> I suggest to reduce number of configs to small amount, something like 3-5 options:
>  * Basic ethernet driver
>  * + ETH
>  * + RDMA
>  * + VDPA
>  * ....
>  * Full mlx5 driver

doesn't sound impossible

> And there is nothing wrong with simple grep [..]

no worries