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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 15:43:12 +0200
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Introduce fwctl subystem
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On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 09:32:54AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 04:42:03PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 10:00:36 -0400 Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > I never agreed to that formulation. I suggested that perhaps runtime
> > > configurations where netdev is the only driver using the HW could be
> > > disabled (ie a netdev exclusion, not a rdma inclusion).
> > 
> > I thought you were arguing that me opposing the addition was
> > "maintainer overreach". As in me telling other parts of the kernel
> > what is and isn't allowed. Do I not get a say what gets merged under
> > drivers/net/ now?
> 
> The PCI core drivers are a shared resource jointly maintained by all
> the subsytems that use them. They are maintained by their respective
> maintainers. Saeed/etc in this case.
> 
> It would be inappropriate for your preferences to supersede Saeed's
> when he is a maintainer of the mlx5_core driver and fwctl. Please try
> and get Saeed on board with your plan.
> 
> If the placement under drivers/net makes this confusing then we can
> certainly change the directory names.

I suggested it before to Jakub and it looks like he is not opposing to it.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250211075553.GF17863@unreal/

Thanks

> 
> Jason
>