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

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 12:41:35PM -0800, Saeed Mahameed wrote:

> How do you imagine this driver/core structure should look like? Who
> will be the top dir maintainer?

I would set something like this up more like DRM. Every driver
maintainer gets commit rights, some rules about no uAPIs, or at least
other acks before merging uAPI. Use the tree for staging shared
branches.

Driver maintainers with the most commits per cycle does the PR or
something like that.

There is no subsystem or cross-driver entanglement so there is no real
need for gatekeeping.

It would be a good opportunity to help more people engage with the
kernel process and learn the full maintainer flow.

> It should be something that is tightly coupled with aux, currently
> aux is under drivers/base/auxiliary.c I think it should move to
> drivers/aux/auxiliary.c and device drivers should implement their
> own aux buses, WH access APIs and probing/init logic under that
> directory e.g: drivers/aux/mlx5/..

That makes sense to me. I would expect everything in this collection
to be PCI drivers spawing aux devices.

drivers/aux_core/ or something like that, perhaps?

Jason