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 A82451327FD; Thu, 4 Apr 2024 18:35:45 +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=1712255745; cv=none; b=ba0t0QesFw4oIaeVLWXjAs2+RG4GuXPIxDFrIZ/xVAwBklQ6DrrpO4SGGASbPc0o+cC/JtRHHkRgsqpMuaLO56gWl4mBKAgNRFiAE8nnGG9sar1l6QYXKlWXMBOcxVX/iFPGnFeohyajwmmtDMpxvi22P1lcQiwE2g1ciPldK8I= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1712255745; c=relaxed/simple; bh=D5doStes5LbDvIj5OW/qOmZxpIoPwQ/5pyTQVs/kqTk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=IJiEEbbJsLGyr5YFblxTy9LNFCAs0Jacf5rKIeZggTOPOvoi19gPgc8l/Q38fGoJlIIOGqHe6mVxD4HevSvSOCQYUcVhjIWdKlUWgJw+lEhn/tp8w8qzVNmXEzTC7frIckCtHEfUJ0mFqAPbXsEnDCY2MD1db79pEgNnDpTZxvI= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=pha4B60D; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="pha4B60D" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 67903C433F1; Thu, 4 Apr 2024 18:35:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1712255745; bh=D5doStes5LbDvIj5OW/qOmZxpIoPwQ/5pyTQVs/kqTk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=pha4B60D0m27PsZaGvvJLi2KhZWTl0mLjUrg4k2TtT/UyLw2H53c9501PX5z6j5wk oy5zZGtvA/zBA4X2vNT4IgJ2Tbm6CHxx5WzI6JMswDGbzrz2YweJL3sQ+KXBcpQF1p nxH+jEemSF7NLsK+WWKVpgVWgRmBD1xDQX3Oembysvf7B4BraO1jPGQAS/phWXS+Yh JuJapJYAIWp7hFI0qjiPMiXh/6j9iCqFg/4licHVkXc9193Ul1dHNV/7Z5Q7VPQeuH H2ByAxUDkjBeJZb7jHlElBs1WFB1NIb+Pqh0SR6bLxXJ1p5+I5jLZW4tEY6kBNkvte XpA6lkalRzmeQ== Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 21:35:40 +0300 From: Leon Romanovsky To: Edward Cree Cc: Jason Gunthorpe , Jakub Kicinski , David Ahern , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Christoph Hellwig , Saeed Mahameed , Arnd Bergmann , Jiri Pirko , Leonid Bloch , Itay Avraham , Saeed Mahameed , Aron Silverton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Andy Gospodarek Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] mlx5 ConnectX control misc driver Message-ID: <20240404183540.GX11187@unreal> References: <0ea32dd4-f408-5870-77eb-f18899f1ad44@gmail.com> <20240402184832.GO11187@unreal> <20240403190012.GV11187@unreal> <20240403170149.7d2b8f2b@kernel.org> <20240404122338.GI1723999@nvidia.com> <20240404074850.19ecd52e@kernel.org> <20240404174728.GL1723999@nvidia.com> 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 Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 07:06:53PM +0100, Edward Cree wrote: > #include > > On 04/04/2024 18:47, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > The configurables exist as they are > > and need to be supported, in one way or another, by the kernel. > > Why? What does the kernel get out of it? > > Maybe *you* need them to be supported, but maybe you should have > thought of that earlier in the design process. ("A failure on > your part to foresee the eminently foreseeable does not > constitute an emergency on mine.") > If we let folks bypass our standards with a _fait accompli_, we > don't really have standards in the first place. Sorry, who are "we" and what are "our standards"? And, please, please reread the thread, it is not about devlink at all. Thanks