From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D0EE39AFA; Sun, 11 Feb 2024 11:03:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1707649405; cv=none; b=SieJ23GdoXN9uvQKpUCIy4R1thtSmMKO9rnMSR4ART4M8xdApae8n+ssoOiJr64+Vj52rXw5xXxr9x8Ms+idov1+p7yrm3ktGdE4m+i5ganiqkE89KnGXjN5v1dshhCwE6pY3auY2vOexDgnnUrXZn8Scn+17l4rnV8V/Rckekg= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1707649405; c=relaxed/simple; bh=FDdtAun0HW0ZCG+7jGqPTp9NYni7KLx7GZ2BuE1pnyg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=KcT4A5GeNyzN89f350DOE5mDrhqweO2Muf7zAGhtC6znGe/rcIjqPKcQF1Bsa35kJJ9ycKGF3ZaH80e57CaI9739AI95xVokYNCzxlThSG3+xEuQaABj+dN6MSshTO/oOuvk4yKqyDlsTocHwRbAIy4pQw9H1xC1ofFBBG7PfNY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=cozt0i8r; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="cozt0i8r" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 588E6C433C7; Sun, 11 Feb 2024 11:03:24 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1707649404; bh=FDdtAun0HW0ZCG+7jGqPTp9NYni7KLx7GZ2BuE1pnyg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=cozt0i8rdiBzTyfc2xuxTGSKFdLM5CAqsJ0pdhjVwqF1jfVelDbSUjbQvBOnaR0TQ gMqYno4f2v4F6nzEn8W/URuXQaE3hV/XRAj2oJtRQG6ARHAKv3xFi08YOvQ34vzf67 SfaZbt/zuR3dg3jM5iRZuq5yfPTWl+Fpd3//KeEw= Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 11:03:21 +0000 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: David Ahern Cc: Jakub Kicinski , Saeed Mahameed , Arnd Bergmann , Leon Romanovsky , Jason Gunthorpe , Jiri Pirko , Leonid Bloch , Itay Avraham , Saeed Mahameed , Aron Silverton , Christoph Hellwig , andrew.gospodarek@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] mlx5 ConnectX control misc driver Message-ID: <2024021139-feast-subtitle-f6e3@gregkh> References: <20240207072435.14182-1-saeed@kernel.org> <20240207070342.21ad3e51@kernel.org> <20240208181555.22d35b61@kernel.org> <2bdc5510-801a-4601-87a3-56eb941d661a@kernel.org> <20240209145828.30e1d000@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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