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

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Message-ID: <20240730131930.GCZqjoYm89oz7CXyJg@fat_crate.local>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 15:19:30 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.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, shiju.jose@...wei.com,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Device Passthrough Considered Harmful?

On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 11:58:50AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Like continuous memory scrubbing and EDAC is not really fwctl since it
> is part of the main mission of a memory device. However evaluating the
> memory to measure current ECC error rate for data collection and
> debugging would be appropriate for fwctl.

fwctl?

What's that? Something to do with "firmware"? If so, how does this thing have
anything to do with RAS stuff?

We have rasdaemon for that where all the RAS controlling and evaluation goes
into.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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