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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 18:16:20 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 09:32:54 -0400 Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > 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.

PCI core driver? You need it for RDMA.

Whether you move the code around or spell it backwards, I don't care,
as long as vast majority of the users of this **NIC**, who only use
TCP/IP do not have fwctl access.