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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
Cc: Aron Silverton <aron.silverton@oracle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>,
	Leonid Bloch <lbloch@nvidia.com>,
	Itay Avraham <itayavr@nvidia.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/5] misc: mlx5ctl: Add mlx5ctl misc driver
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 08:55:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZXniAwBwtF5hmOuq@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZXIUysBgNWWZHe0z@x130>

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).

  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-13 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-21  7:06 [PATCH V3 0/5] mlx5 ConnectX control misc driver Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21  7:06 ` [PATCH V3 1/5] mlx5: Add aux dev for ctl interface Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21  7:06 ` [PATCH V3 2/5] misc: mlx5ctl: Add mlx5ctl misc driver Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-27 13:36   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-27 14:40     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-11-27 15:51       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-27 16:17         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-11-27 18:27           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-27 19:26             ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-28  0:07               ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-28  4:46                 ` David Ahern
2023-11-28 14:53                   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-28 16:24                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-11-28 16:44                       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-28 17:52                         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-11-28 18:33                           ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-28 19:55                             ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-28 20:10                             ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-29  9:08                               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-12-04 21:37                                 ` Aron Silverton
2023-12-05  2:52                                   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-12-05 17:11                                     ` Aron Silverton
2023-12-06  4:48                                       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-12-07 15:54                                         ` David Ahern
2023-12-07 16:20                                           ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-12-07 16:41                                         ` Aron Silverton
2023-12-07 17:23                                           ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-12-07 18:06                                             ` Aron Silverton
2023-12-07 19:02                                               ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-12-08  5:29                                                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-12-08 13:34                                                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-12-08  5:27                                               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-12-08 12:52                                                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-12-07 18:54                                           ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-12-13 16:55                                             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-11-28 19:31                         ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-28 16:52                     ` David Ahern
2023-11-27 18:59   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-29  9:08     ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-29  9:20       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-29 13:02         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-11-29 15:41           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-29 18:07             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-11-21  7:06 ` [PATCH V3 3/5] misc: mlx5ctl: Add info ioctl Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-27 19:09   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-27 20:39     ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-28  9:13       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-29  8:53         ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21  7:06 ` [PATCH V3 4/5] misc: mlx5ctl: Add command rpc ioctl Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21  7:06 ` [PATCH V3 5/5] misc: mlx5ctl: Add umem reg/unreg ioctl Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21 20:44   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-21 21:04     ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21 22:10       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-21 22:52         ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21 22:18       ` David Ahern
2023-11-21 22:46         ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21 23:46     ` Jason Gunthorpe

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