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 05F5612E4E for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2024 07:32:33 +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=1711092754; cv=none; b=XxruAAG3WeHA9oiF00dojq2CTVrrm/af5OHHAKE6uxKKXxLaEKZcSbcHQJRNa1XeBtjEcshwj+KdZYKPPSreAWfInnjjFMgoTveiLWxx4TDa366NC3/Qax5nsxhfe8l2tTcDuM7dPSyULMH55aXH0rzOMZLwKPzmcdzBU7OoH1A= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1711092754; c=relaxed/simple; bh=dvaHaWF/NSDuciCxk9CaOg5cXqouPwxc5xMlUCVozmE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=qJK+u/+uUu0Prphb1sHht6xZwkTzN3U+87dtKo9U26HmDCMI9MO38VF7RA0xtWfpwTj5aLNcYunw0J8roQU3cI2jBw6m1p/gQkEHVNWVU/IgN9DxadOF92IHyGzZv6l/jDygIgZ4IB0YHPKcth1rga3j5gfpppKNTANt56sNJvg= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=NQdGycKH; 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="NQdGycKH" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1222FC433F1; Fri, 22 Mar 2024 07:32:33 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1711092753; bh=dvaHaWF/NSDuciCxk9CaOg5cXqouPwxc5xMlUCVozmE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=NQdGycKH+xu6txLmlIXuGu8DBkCSUcDbCT2NAlC/iZrqK8s5KhtWwsVJ5ixI+HX0r 5C0qm8ybvOGUsl24PEQNBgoVpxkfXL9JKtjGE6TWx2wD3HwZPPCTYJwrjqVo+JGalK DmB7sh3mzqr4cmWxu5sXDv5dk+1jLjI62f5S6P+o= Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 08:32:29 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: David Ahern Cc: Jason Gunthorpe , Christoph Hellwig , Saeed Mahameed , Arnd Bergmann , Leon Romanovsky , Jiri Pirko , Leonid Bloch , Itay Avraham , Jakub Kicinski , Saeed Mahameed , Aron Silverton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Gospodarek Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] mlx5 ConnectX control misc driver Message-ID: <2024032248-ardently-ribcage-a495@gregkh> References: <20240207072435.14182-1-saeed@kernel.org> <20240214175735.GG1088888@nvidia.com> <20240304160237.GA2909161@nvidia.com> <9cc7127f-8674-43bc-b4d7-b1c4c2d96fed@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: <9cc7127f-8674-43bc-b4d7-b1c4c2d96fed@kernel.org> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 09:23:28PM -0600, David Ahern wrote: > On 3/4/24 9:02 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 01:57:35PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > >> I also like this, I don't want the outcome of this discussion to be > >> that only mlx5ctl gets merged. I want all the HW that has this problem > >> to have support in the mainline kernel. > > > > To this end here is my proposal to move forward with a new > > mini-subsystem to provide rules for this common approach. Get the > > existing tools out of hacky unstructured direct hardware access via > > /sys/XX and into a formalized lockdown compatible system. I've talked > > to enough people now to think we have a critical mass. > > > > It has been almost 3 weeks and no response (to this and other proposals > in this thread). I have been around Linux long enough to know that > silence is not acceptance. > > To me, this seems like a sane start for a new subsystem addressing > challenges with complex, modern devices. To that end: > > Acked-by: David Ahern It's the middle of the merge window, not much we can actually do and this patch series itself couldn't be applied as-is, so it's hard to see what could have happened on my end... thanks, greg k-h