Re: [TECH TOPIC] UALink driver upstreaming

[Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 09:49:56AM -0400, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 02:18:40PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM Konstantin Sinyuk <sinyuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Longer term, as UAL adoption grows and multiple vendors hook into the
> > > framework, the natural home would be a dedicated drivers/ual/, just as
> > > CXL evolved into its own subsystem.
> > 
> > If you already know there will be other things than accelerators there,
> > so it's more like, i don't know, PCI or greybus, then put it into its own
> > subsystem in drivers/ualink from day one, I think drivers/ual is a bit
> > terse, the world is full och TLA:s already, also that is its actual name
> > isn't it? Hard to miss if someone is looking for it.
> > 
> > Your merges can still go through some submaintainer like Greg, or
> > DRM, if they need some shepherding to start out. After all that's how
> > drivers/accel is managed, through DRM.
> 
> I agree it should be drivers/ualink from day 1.
> 
> I like the idea of the flow through drm.
> 

+1 to both. I like the idea of creating a mini subsystem for ualink,
going through DRM. With that, let's include dri-devel on all future
ualink discussions.

Matt

> > 
> > Just my €0.01.
> > 
> > Yours,
> > Linus Walleij
> >