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

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Message-ID: <CACDg6nU_Dkte_GASNRpkvSSCihpg52FBqNr0KR3ud1YRvrRs3w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 22:17:58 -0500
From: Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, 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 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.