netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 04/14] dt-bindings: arm: mediatek: document WED binding for MT7622

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Message-ID: <7ee0b60b-a931-357e-7d88-ee2fd04f6902@nbd.name>
Date:   Thu, 7 Apr 2022 18:10:56 +0200
From:   Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/14] dt-bindings: arm: mediatek: document WED binding
 for MT7622

On 07.04.22 17:50, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> > Isn't this a network offload engine? If yes, then probably it should be
>> > in "net/".
>> It's not a network offload engine by itself. It's a SoC component that
>> connects to the offload engine and controls a MTK PCIe WLAN device,
>> intercepting interrupts and DMA rings in order to be able to inject packets
>> coming in from the offload engine.
> 
> Hi Felix
> 
> Maybe turn the question around. Can it be used for something other
> than networking? If not, then somewhere under net seems reasonable.
I'm fine with moving this to net.

- Felix