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

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Message-ID: <20250319081704.GF1322339@unreal>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:17:04 +0200
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
	"Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
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	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 05:06:17PM +0100, 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...

Yes, let's do name contest later when code will come. There are multiple
companies already started to work on it and my hope that it will be ready
for next merge cycle.

Thanks

> 
> greg k-h