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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: alucerop@amd.com, linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org,
	pieter.jansen-van-vuuren@amd.com, richard.hughes@amd.com,
	dinan.gunawardena@amd.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] cxl: move header files for absolute references
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 21:30:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZmkkaOTUFuzIr2cG@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <666923ba32ac7_3101294dc@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch>

On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 09:27:38PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> alucerop@ wrote:
> > From: Alejandro Lucero <alucerop@amd.com>
> > 
> > CXL Type 2 devices imply specific vendor drivers binding to those
> > devices instead of generic ones offered by CXL core like the PCI driver.

No, it absolutelt does not.  There is no such thing as a vendor driver
in Linux.

> So I don't like this approach, there are details that are private to the
> CXL generic memory-expander use case, and some that are suitable for
> CXL.mem and CXL.cache capabilities in other drivers. That distinct
> subset should move to include/linux/. I.e. I want to see the incremental
> conversion of what 3rd party drivers need compared to the generic
> expander case, and consider when and where new shared infrastructure
> needs to be refactored.

And I'd much rather keep all these drivers in drivers/cxl/ anyway so
that we can keep a tight control over them.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-12  4:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-16  8:11 [RFC PATCH 00/13] RFC: add Type2 device support alucerop
2024-05-16  8:11 ` [RFC PATCH 01/13] cxl: move header files for absolute references alucerop
2024-06-12  4:27   ` Dan Williams
2024-06-12  4:30     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-06-12  5:54       ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-06-12 10:07         ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-06-12 13:36           ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-06-12 21:18       ` Dan Williams
2024-06-13 11:45         ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-06-14  1:22           ` Dan Williams
2024-06-14  8:54             ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-06-12  5:42     ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-05-16  8:11 ` [RFC PATCH 02/13] cxl: add type2 device basic support alucerop
2024-05-17 14:30   ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-05-20 15:46     ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-06-12  4:43   ` Dan Williams
2024-06-12  6:04     ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-06-12 14:17       ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-06-12 18:29     ` Alison Schofield
2024-06-12 18:58       ` Dan Williams
2024-06-12  7:13   ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-05-16  8:11 ` [RFC PATCH 03/13] cxl: export core function for type2 devices alucerop
2024-06-12  4:50   ` Dan Williams
2024-06-12  6:07     ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-05-16  8:11 ` [RFC PATCH 04/13] cxl: allow devices without mailbox capability alucerop
2024-05-17 14:33   ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-05-20 15:49     ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-05-16  8:11 ` [RFC PATCH 05/13] cxl: fix check about pmem resource alucerop
2024-05-17 14:40   ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-05-20 15:41     ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-05-16  8:11 ` [RFC PATCH 06/13] cxl: support type2 memdev creation alucerop
2024-05-16  8:11 ` [RFC PATCH 07/13] cxl: add functions for exclusive access to endpoint port topology alucerop
2024-06-12  7:22   ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-05-16  8:11 ` [RFC PATCH 08/13] cxl: add cxl_get_hpa_freespace alucerop
2024-06-12  7:27   ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-05-16  8:11 ` [RFC PATCH 09/13] cxl: add cxl_request_dpa alucerop
2024-06-12  7:29   ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-05-16  8:11 ` [RFC PATCH 10/13] cxl: make region type based on endpoint type alucerop
2024-05-16  8:12 ` [RFC PATCH 11/13] cxl: allow automatic region creation by type2 drivers alucerop
2024-06-12  7:32   ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-05-16  8:12 ` [RFC PATCH 12/13] cxl: preclude device memory to be used for dax alucerop
2024-05-16  8:12 ` [RFC PATCH 13/13] cxl: test type2 private mapping alucerop
2024-05-17  0:08 ` [RFC PATCH 00/13] RFC: add Type2 device support Dan Williams
2024-05-18  9:59   ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-05-21  4:56     ` Dan Williams
2024-05-22 16:38       ` Alejandro Lucero Palau
2024-05-31 10:52         ` Alejandro Lucero Palau

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