netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Introduce fwctl subystem

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Message-ID: <20250304164203.38418211@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 16:42:03 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Andy Gospodarek
 <andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.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>, 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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Introduce fwctl subystem

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 10:00:36 -0400 Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> I never agreed to that formulation. I suggested that perhaps runtime
> configurations where netdev is the only driver using the HW could be
> disabled (ie a netdev exclusion, not a rdma inclusion).

I thought you were arguing that me opposing the addition was
"maintainer overreach". As in me telling other parts of the kernel
what is and isn't allowed. Do I not get a say what gets merged under
drivers/net/ now?

> However, I would agree fwctl should not accept any fwctl drivers for
> simple networking devices. However, "smart nics" and RDMA capable
> devices are in-scope.

Please stop with the fake technical arguments.
I worked on SmartNICs for a decade.