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

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Message-ID: <20250305133254.GV133783@nvidia.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 09:32:54 -0400
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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, Mar 04, 2025 at 04:42:03PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 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?

The PCI core drivers are a shared resource jointly maintained by all
the subsytems that use them. They are maintained by their respective
maintainers. Saeed/etc in this case.

It would be inappropriate for your preferences to supersede Saeed's
when he is a maintainer of the mlx5_core driver and fwctl. Please try
and get Saeed on board with your plan.

If the placement under drivers/net makes this confusing then we can
certainly change the directory names.

Jason