From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com>,
Gal Pressman <galpress@amazon.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, SW_Drivers <SW_Drivers@habana.ai>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] Adding GAUDI NIC code to habanalabs driver
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 11:20:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200919082003.GW869610@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200919064020.GC439518@kroah.com>
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 08:40:20AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 03:19:05PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > So we do have an open-source library called hl-thunk, which uses our
> > > driver and indeed that was part of the requirement.
> > > It is similar to libdrm.
> > > Here is the link:
> > > https://github.com/HabanaAI/hl-thunk
> >
> > Are you kidding?
> >
> > This is mirror of some internal repository that looks like dumpster
> > with ChangeId, internal bug tracker numbers, not part of major OS
> > distributions.
> >
> > It is not open-source library and shows very clear why you chose
> > to upstream your driver through driver/misc/ tree.
>
> It is an open source library, as per the license and the code
> availability. What more is expected here?
So can I fork iproute2, add bunch of new custom netlink UAPIs and expect
Dave to merge it after I throw it on github?
>
> No distro has to pick it up, that's not a requirement for kernel code,
> we have many kernel helper programs that are not in distros. Heck, udev
> took a long time to get into distros, does that mean the kernel side of
> that interface should never have been merged?
>
> I don't understand your complaint here, it's not our place to judge the
> code quality of userspace libraries, otherwise we would never get any
> real-work done :)
My main complaint is that you can't imagine merging code into large
subsystems (netdev, RDMA, DRM? e.t.c) without being civil open-source
citizen. It means use of existing user-space libraries/tools and/or
providing new ones that will be usable for everyone.
In this case, we have some custom char device with library that is not
usable for anyone else and this is why drivers/misc/ is right place.
While we are talking about real-work, it is our benefit to push companies
to make investment into ecosystem and not letting them to find an excuse
for not doing it.
Thanks
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-19 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-15 17:10 [PATCH v3 00/14] Adding GAUDI NIC code to habanalabs driver Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 01/14] habanalabs/gaudi: add NIC H/W and registers definitions Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 02/14] habanalabs/gaudi: add NIC firmware-related definitions Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 03/14] habanalabs/gaudi: add NIC security configuration Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 04/14] habanalabs/gaudi: add support for NIC QMANs Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 05/14] habanalabs/gaudi: add NIC Ethernet support Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 06/14] habanalabs/gaudi: add NIC PHY code Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 07/14] habanalabs/gaudi: allow user to get MAC addresses in INFO IOCTL Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 08/14] habanalabs/gaudi: add a new IOCTL for NIC control operations Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 09/14] habanalabs/gaudi: add CQ " Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 10/14] habanalabs/gaudi: add WQ " Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 11/14] habanalabs/gaudi: add QP error handling Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 12/14] habanalabs/gaudi: Add ethtool support using coresight Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 13/14] habanalabs/gaudi: support DCB protocol Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 17:10 ` [PATCH v3 14/14] habanalabs/gaudi: add NIC init/fini calls from common code Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 20:35 ` [PATCH v3 00/14] Adding GAUDI NIC code to habanalabs driver Jakub Kicinski
2020-09-15 20:46 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 21:04 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-09-15 21:20 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 21:37 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-15 21:43 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 22:35 ` David Miller
2020-09-15 22:36 ` David Miller
2020-09-15 22:34 ` David Miller
2020-09-16 4:26 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-17 17:18 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-18 11:36 ` Gal Pressman
2020-09-18 11:52 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-18 11:56 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-18 12:03 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-18 12:07 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-18 12:19 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-18 12:31 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-18 13:09 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-19 6:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-19 8:20 ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2020-09-19 8:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-19 8:58 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-19 16:43 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-19 17:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-19 19:22 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-20 8:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-20 19:05 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-21 10:39 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-21 11:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-21 21:20 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-09-22 11:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-19 18:49 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-18 11:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-18 11:59 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-18 12:16 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-18 12:34 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-18 12:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-18 13:02 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-18 13:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-18 13:49 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-18 13:59 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-18 14:12 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-18 14:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-18 14:45 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-18 15:07 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-18 15:15 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-18 15:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-21 11:22 ` Gal Pressman
2020-09-21 11:49 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-22 11:41 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-22 12:46 ` Gal Pressman
2020-09-22 16:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-22 16:30 ` Gal Pressman
2020-09-22 16:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-18 12:10 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-15 20:42 ` David Miller
2020-09-15 20:49 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-16 6:26 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-16 6:36 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-16 7:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-16 8:02 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-16 8:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-16 8:47 ` Oded Gabbay
2020-09-16 12:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-20 16:45 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-09-16 23:04 ` Williams, Dan J
2020-09-18 12:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-18 12:01 ` Oded Gabbay
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