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

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Message-ID: <CA+FuTSfJuVGgU6ce_SSErXUYc584OEgwk=PQS7beu2Tj5Wnu-w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 14:42:50 -0400
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>, "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, 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

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 2:22 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
>
> > +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?

This has come up before.

"Drivers are organized by the vendor for better or worse. We have a
number of drivers under the "wrong directly" already. Companies merge /
buy each others product lines, there's also some confusion about common
IP drivers. It's all fine, whatever."


https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230414152744.4fd219f9@kernel.org/