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

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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:07:00 +0000
From: "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman
	<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, "Nelson, Shannon"
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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: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2025 6:25 AM
> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>; David Ahern
> <dsahern@...nel.org>; Nelson, Shannon <shannon.nelson@....com>; Leon
> Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>; Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>; Jakub Kicinski
> <kuba@...nel.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 Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 02:20:45PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > Yes, note, the issue came up in the 2.5.x kernel days, _WAY_ before we
> > had git, so this wasn't a git issue.  I'm all for "drivers/core/" but
> > note, that really looks like "the driver core" area of the kernel, so
> > maybe pick a different name?
> 
> Yeah, +1. We have lots of places calling what is in drivers/base 'core'.
> 
> Jason

Core is quite often used like "the core of the kernel that is non-driver stuff", i.e. "the networking core", "the PTP core", etc.

Naming things is indeed hard.