netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 10/10] bnxt: Create an auxiliary device for fwctl

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Message-ID: <20250207124624.GP2960738@nvidia.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 08:46:24 -0400
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To: Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Aron Silverton <aron.silverton@...cle.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
	Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...adcom.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Itay Avraham <itayavr@...dia.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
	Leonid Bloch <lbloch@...dia.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>, linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
	"Nelson, Shannon" <shannon.nelson@....com>,
	Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 10/10] bnxt: Create an auxiliary device for fwctl_bnxt

On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 10:17:58PM -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu,  6 Feb 2025 20:13:32 -0400 Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > From: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...adcom.com>
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...adcom.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
> >
> > This is only needed for RDMA, why can't you make this part of bnxt_re ?
> 
> This is not just needed for RDMA, so having the aux device for fwctl
> as part of the base driver is preferred.

Same for mlx5

I have to apologize, somehow the bnxt WIP patches got included here,
I did not intend that, it was late and I'm juggling too many things
this week.

Jason