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

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Message-ID: <95da9782-7c46-4ddc-8d7e-ffb3db31ebc3@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 06:48:48 +0100
From: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Jason Gunthorpe
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Introduce fwctl subystem

On 3/18/25 17:06, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 08:39:50AM -0700, Dave Jiang wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 3/18/25 6:25 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> 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'.
>>
>> just throwing in my 2c
>>
>> drivers/main
> 
> Implies the "driver core"
> 
>> drivers/common
> 
> lib/ maybe?
> 
>> drivers/primary
> 
> It's not going to be the primary drivers for my laptop :)
> 
> Naming is hard.  Let's see some code first...
> 
> greg k-h
> 

"platfrom" would also suggest a wider thing, so:
"complex"?

anyway, I don't like fwctl, so maybe "fwctl" to at least reveal the real
reason :P