Re: mlx5 ConnectX diagnostic misc driver

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-10-19T15:36:18Z

On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 08:24:51AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > The ConnectX HW family supported by the mlx5 drivers uses an architecture
> > where a FW component executes "mailbox RPCs" issued by the driver to make
> > changes to the device. This results in a complex debugging environment
> > where the FW component has information and complex low level state that
> > needs to be accessed to userspace for debugging purposes.
>
> You're being very dishonest towards Greg by not telling him that this
> is a networking device, and the networking maintainers explicitly nacked
> this backdoor. Nacked it, because you can't answer basic questions like
> "what are the use cases" with more than "custom config and debug".
>
> Whether Greg wants to take this into the "misc" pile is entirely up
> to him, but you gotta give him more context.

Well, in this case, no way in hell will I be taking this. If this is a
networking device, it needs to go through the normal networking driver
review process, thanks for the heads up.

greg k-h