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

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Message-ID: <20240725141856.GG7022@unreal>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 17:18:56 +0300
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@...il.com>,
	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 02:29:36PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 04:20:35PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 03:02:13PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> 
> > > As a user, and as an open source Distro developer I have a small hint.
> > > But you could also ask users what they think about not being able to
> > > use their notebook's cameras. The last time that I could not use some
> > > basic hardware from a notebook with Linux was 20 years ago.
> 
> > Lucky you, I still have consumer hardware (speaker) that doesn't work
> > with Linux, and even now, there is basic hardware in my current
> > laptop (HP docking station) that doesn't work reliably in Linux.
> 
> FWIW for most audio issues (especially built in stuff) with laptops if
> you report it upstream it'll generally be relatively easy to quirk.
> Unfortunately it's idiomatic for ACPI systems to quirk off DMI
> information for almost everything which means a constant stream of per
> system quirks for subsystems like audio.

It is Jabra USB speaker. One day, I will have time to debug it :).

Thanks