netdev - Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Device Passthrough Considered Harmful?

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Message-ID: <20240725122315.GE7022@unreal>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:23:15 +0300
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@...il.com>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, ksummit@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jgg@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Device Passthrough Considered Harmful?

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 11:26:38AM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 10:02 PM Laurent Pinchart
> <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com> wrote:

<...>

> 
> It would be great to define what are the free software communities
> here. Distros and final users are also "free software communities" and
> they do not care about niche use cases covered by proprietary
> software.

Are you certain about that?

> They only care (and should care) about normal workflows.

What is a normal workflow?
Does it mean that if user bought something very expensive he
should not be able to use it with free software, because his
usage is different from yours?

Thanks