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

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:33:04 +0000
From: "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
CC: "Nelson, Shannon" <shannon.nelson@....com>, Leon Romanovsky
	<leon@...nel.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Jakub Kicinski
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	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, "Sinyuk,
 Konstantin" <konstantin.sinyuk@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v5 0/8] Introduce fwctl subystem



> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2025 12:01 PM
> To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>; Keller, Jacob E
> <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
> Cc: Nelson, Shannon <shannon.nelson@....com>; Leon Romanovsky
> <leon@...nel.org>; Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>; Jakub Kicinski
> <kuba@...nel.org>; Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>; Andy
> Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com>; Aron Silverton
> <aron.silverton@...cle.com>; Williams, Dan J <dan.j.williams@...el.com>; Daniel
> Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>; Jiang, Dave <dave.jiang@...el.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>; linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org; linux-
> rdma@...r.kernel.org; netdev@...r.kernel.org; Saeed Mahameed
> <saeedm@...dia.com>; Sinyuk, Konstantin <konstantin.sinyuk@...el.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Introduce fwctl subystem
> 
> On 3/17/25 1:33 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 11:09:47AM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> >
> >> I'd throw my hat in for drivers/core as well, I think it makes the most
> >> sense and is the most subsystem neutral name. Hopefully any issue with
> >> tooling can be solved relatively easily.
> >
> > Given Greg's point about core dump files sometimes being in .gitignore
> > maybe "shared_core", or something along that path is a better name?
> >
> 
> Not seeing the conflict on drivers/core:
> 
> $ find . -name .gitignore | xargs grep core
> ./tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/.gitignore:core-pkey
> ./tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/.gitignore:test_core
> ./tools/testing/selftests/mincore/.gitignore:mincore_selftest
> ./arch/mips/crypto/.gitignore:poly1305-core.S
> ./arch/arm/crypto/.gitignore:aesbs-core.S
> ./arch/arm/crypto/.gitignore:sha256-core.S
> ./arch/arm/crypto/.gitignore:sha512-core.S
> ./arch/arm/crypto/.gitignore:poly1305-core.S
> ./arch/arm64/crypto/.gitignore:sha256-core.S
> ./arch/arm64/crypto/.gitignore:sha512-core.S
> ./arch/arm64/crypto/.gitignore:poly1305-core.S

I would guess its people putting core in their own ignore lists, not necessarily what we commit to the kernel tree.

Thanks,
Jake