Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] mlx5 ConnectX control misc driver

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 10:01:33PM -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> >> BTW, there is already a broadcom driver under drivers/misc that seems to
> >> have a lot of overlap capability wise to this driver. Perhaps a Broadcom
> >> person could chime in.
> > 
> > I'm not aware. Or do you mean bcm-vk? That's a video encoder.
> 
> If that specific piece of S/W is a video encoder, why isn't it under
> drivers/video? Scanning the code it seems to me to fall under the open
> channel between userspace and F/W which is a common paradigm. But I do
> not want this to distract from this patch set; really I was just
> browsing existing drivers for any overlap.

It is an "offload-engine" type of thing that was added before we had the
specific subsystem for it.  It should be moved to drivers/accel/ one of
these days, want to volunteer to help out with that?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h