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

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Message-ID: <2024072931-carnival-dumpling-57fa@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:16:34 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	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 Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 07:56:07AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 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.
> 

Also, the misc driver maintainer (i.e. me), explicitly asked for the
review by the networking maintainer here.  It wasn't a drive-by-nak at
all.

greg k-h