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 0B9DE18132B; Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:03:46 +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=1712779426; cv=none; b=dylt2snQwyaUZwMV6HHy6eGYgoiDRRjO86OuOPs/PSpcuqJ2ux3zvUuDIA1kpVq3fqzKbfA9u8wvqt+ZHMvbbREbem6vKFwAQtGWdaxh0soLt0ELMh5jCsmvPvMDigreEO621MP2F+xUlf4BPImTQpmaYCAVjp8XjQKTjYaourM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1712779426; c=relaxed/simple; bh=fgfKsB/fGZU/LvMCIubsUr0QwnLuGK+aV9HTKLwAaOU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=kDCcUxO7lJxKBfaIaG0AsmSSaoXy1URs0sGrpM817bbY1zMAg7YU8Z325sTwiy6KNke9hCCkxL4hwLSuUyXVBioMQ2mHAfVIhyhHwDoiGkdN3U8PrWIKO01bNNsgulpx/si/JfejxA7YOP9rqqtn6exHA9fPNuRD5cIeg4OCTt8= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=poKjChGY; 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="poKjChGY" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 684E8C433F1; Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:03:45 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1712779425; bh=fgfKsB/fGZU/LvMCIubsUr0QwnLuGK+aV9HTKLwAaOU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=poKjChGYwJW0JiDLoaI7U8L7osIThOIHfjN16wtAhAVHmFc42xl1jb+hGVOpPNSac Jw7LNmyo+6cRU9dPbfjtaKdgiwK9NGGWoQNO6NUz89eOXFgwTc7QVBKtwTbY3tzlgh Gsz26j250nE0XCuIXNUDuY0K20ncDUWqJhq8QLdcAEhA+TPDM8oPKBVOdvHwZhuJqX AGgpGly14f1FD4TECCoFmfaYCWYF+lH9B1WtC+MjK8yxpJH2UqYKUzV+1Ezkd4P1i9 oHYO6HwgkOOdjgNVPCboUffNURvceco2AsJXCQJrz3lmioKpvuCkGLkSVFybbQIHHr deUPnKO3iZFfQ== Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:03:44 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Florian Fainelli Cc: Jiri Pirko , pabeni@redhat.com, John Fastabend , Alexander Lobakin , Andrew Lunn , Daniel Borkmann , Edward Cree , Alexander Duyck , netdev@vger.kernel.org, bhelgaas@google.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Duyck , Willem de Bruijn Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 00/15] eth: fbnic: Add network driver for Meta Platforms Host Network Interface Message-ID: <20240410130344.11292750@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: References: <171217454226.1598374.8971335637623132496.stgit@ahduyck-xeon-server.home.arpa> <20240409135142.692ed5d9@kernel.org> <20240410064611.553c22e9@kernel.org> <20240410103531.46437def@kernel.org> <20240410105619.3c19d189@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:00:35 -0700 Florian Fainelli wrote: > although I cannot really think about an "implied" metric that we could > track, short of monitoring patches/bug reports coming from outside of > the original driver authors/owners as an indication of how widely > utilized a given driver is. Not metric, just to clarify. I think the discussion started from my email saying: - help with refactoring / adapting their drivers more actively and that may be an empty promise if the person doing the refactoring does not know they could ask. It's not uncommon for a relative newcomer to redo some internal API. Not that it's usually a hard transformation.. Dunno, a bit hypothetical.