netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/8] Introduce fwctl subystem

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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 18:43:16 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, Jason
 Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Itay Avraham <itayavr@...dia.com>, Leon
 Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, Tariq Toukan
 <tariqt@...dia.com>, Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com>, Aron
 Silverton <aron.silverton@...cle.com>, Christoph Hellwig
 <hch@...radead.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>, Leonid Bloch
 <lbloch@...dia.com>, Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>,
 linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Introduce fwctl subystem

On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 15:34:48 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >For bigger, single purpose devices, it is just a switch, there is less
> >inconvenience of using just one vendor SDK, on top of the vendor
> >proscribed kernel.  
> 
> I'm aware of what you wrote and undertand it. I just thought Jakub's
> mixed experience is about the APIs more than the politics behind vedors
> adoptation process..

Not the API / implementation, just that the adoption is limited.
The benefits of using a standard Linux approach is outweighed by
the large pool of talent with experience programming using the SDK
of *the* vendor.