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

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Message-ID: <20240729075607.71ca5150@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 07:56:07 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Laurent Pinchart 
 <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>, 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 Sun, 28 Jul 2024 11:49:44 -0400 James Bottomley wrote:
> cross subsystem NAKs

Could y'all please stop saying "cross subsystem NAKs"..
It makes it sound like networking is nacking an addition to RDMA 
or storage. The problem is that nVidia insists on making their
proprietary gateway a "misc driver" usable in all subsystems.

If they want to add something at the top level, all affected
subsystems should have a say.