Re: [PATCH V3 2/5] misc: mlx5ctl: Add mlx5ctl misc driver

Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-13T16:55:41Z

On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 10:54:02AM -0800, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> Also I would like to repeat, this is not touching netdev, netdev's policies
> do not apply to the greater kernel or RDMA, and we have use cases with
> pure-infiniband/DPU/FPGA cards that have no netdev at all, or other cases
> with pur virtio instances, and much more.

Yes. I mean just about every complex block driver has some kind of
vendor spcific tooling for debugging, statistics, etc. Trying to deny
it just because one function expose by a device is a network device is
even more silly than disallowing it for pure net devices (which already
tend to be complex beasts).