Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx5: Fill out devlink dev info only for PFs

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 13:35:28 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >nvidia's employees patches should go via your tree, in the first place.  
> 
> Why? I've been in Mellanox/Nvidia for almost 10 years and this is
> actually the first time I hit this. I'm used to send patches directly,
> I've been doing that for almost 15+ years and this was never issue.

You probably mostly change the driver together with core, like devlink.
In those cases you can post outside the main stream.

> Where this rule is written down? What changed?

It was always like this, since before I became a maintainer.
I think what happened is Saeed handed the maintainership over
without "writing down" all the rules that we established over
the years.

Obviously he will now probably disagree with me. Because y'all
apparently have no time to review patches, but playing victim
you have all the time in the world for.

There are only two vendors big enough to warrant a special process
(Intel and nVidia), and we make reasonable accommodations (like
the one above) so it's impractical to write all the rules down.

Not to mention the fact that you should perhaps, in an ideal 
world, just try to be a good community member, instead acting
as if we're signing a business contract.

Have a nice weekend.