netdev - Re: [PATCH iwl-next v4 00/15] Introduce Intel IDPF driver

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Message-ID: <52826c35-eba1-40fb-bfa9-23a87400bfa4@lunn.ch>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 20:22:46 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>,
	intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, shannon.nelson@....com,
	simon.horman@...igine.com, leon@...nel.org, decot@...gle.com,
	willemb@...gle.com, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com,
	anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Singhai, Anjali" <anjali.singhai@...el.com>,
	"Orr, Michael" <michael.orr@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iwl-next v4 00/15] Introduce Intel IDPF driver

> +config IDPF
> +	tristate "Intel(R) Infrastructure Data Path Function Support"
> +	depends on PCI_MSI
> +	select DIMLIB
> +	help
> +	  This driver supports Intel(R) Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU)
> +	  devices.
> 
> It can be updated with Intel references removed when the spec becomes
> standard and meets the community requirements.

Is IPU Intels name for the hardware which implements DPF? I assume
when 'Intel' is dropped, IPU would also be dropped? Which leaves the
help empty.

And i assume when it is no longer tied to Intel, the Kconfig entry
will move somewhere else, because at the moment, it appears to appear
under Intel, when it probably should be at a higher level, maybe
'Network device support'? And will the code maybe move to net/idpf?

<tongue in cheek>
Maybe put it into driver/staging/idpf for the moment?
</tongue in cheek>

	 Andrew