netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 03/14] net/dibs: Create net/dibs

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Message-Id: <DCOY3FWT1W5E.3SSDEILQWSZOF@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:34:37 +0200
From: "Julian Ruess" <julianr@...ux.ibm.com>
To: "Alexandra Winter" <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>, <dust.li@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        "D. Wythe" <alibuda@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        "Sidraya Jayagond"
 <sidraya@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Wenjia Zhang" <wenjia@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "David
 Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@...nel.org>, "Paolo
 Abeni" <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        "Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "Andrew
 Lunn" <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>
Cc: "Julian Ruess" <julianr@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Aswin Karuvally"
 <aswin@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Halil Pasic" <pasic@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Mahanta
 Jambigi" <mjambigi@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Tony Lu" <tonylu@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        "Wen Gu" <guwen@...ux.alibaba.com>, <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Heiko Carstens"
 <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Vasily Gorbik" <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Alexander
 Gordeev" <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Christian Borntraeger"
 <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Sven Schnelle" <svens@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Simon
 Horman" <horms@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 03/14] net/dibs: Create net/dibs

On Tue Sep 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM CEST, Alexandra Winter wrote:
>
>
> On 09.09.25 03:54, Dust Li wrote:
>> On 2025-09-05 16:54:16, Alexandra Winter wrote:
>>> Create an 'DIBS' shim layer that will provide generic functionality and
>>> declarations for dibs device drivers and dibs clients.
>>>
>>> Following patches will add functionality.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>> MAINTAINERS          |  7 +++++++
>>> include/linux/dibs.h | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> net/Kconfig          |  1 +
>>> net/Makefile         |  1 +
>>> net/dibs/Kconfig     | 12 ++++++++++++
>>> net/dibs/Makefile    |  7 +++++++
>>> net/dibs/dibs_main.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> 7 files changed, 107 insertions(+)
>>> create mode 100644 include/linux/dibs.h
>>> create mode 100644 net/dibs/Kconfig
>>> create mode 100644 net/dibs/Makefile
>>> create mode 100644 net/dibs/dibs_main.c
>> 
>> I recall we previously discussed the issue of which directory to place
>> it in, and I don't have any strong preference regarding this. However,
>> I'm not sure whether we reached an agreement on this point. In my
>> opinion, placing it under the drivers/ directory seems more reasonable.
>> But if net/ is OK, that works for me too.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Dust
>> 
>> 
>
> You mean like drivers/infiniband that provides sys/class/infiniband?
> I don't have any strong feelings about where to place the directory.
> Are there any practical consequences?
> Other opinions?

I agree with Dust. Since we are planning to also have non-networking use-cases,
it would be better to place it in drivers/.