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 242B5238D22 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2025 16:20:54 +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=1741364455; cv=none; b=tobcvHF3tnMFmYSadJbCiPxy5rKrQ/Xvavz6q5KquCgolavgT5vBNQlhYYjj5dTBgRjUZNX4NCbDsmAXWv77z9Q/FjBOW9HCCu3BXBHfOuXe4HNNfhzAKxK2NkIzVrq/0mfMpIcxGKHNwPHEUotEkN53PC7pJwr2FrNhWWGWH8U= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1741364455; c=relaxed/simple; bh=7oJXj1/jPOIuPfxk5QMQaAmd4EOU7Boinrb83twt6JU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=PRBFA9+KniKUtS2ZZiogNxMwH1o5iubuFR9EJfYoKdNnUrjOV4yPCeFzCh4MjsdkVVu/Lotg7o4mOy2An5Vs2LR0d/kp6a8Ehi8YsRjpB6MyfI8Ko3PaUXxbpTc+Ip5K20yXteCfe1AwNVLKhfyOLCOf/fzCARJJiRUUHxgIgbU= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=UsMgt2cU; 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="UsMgt2cU" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 23415C4CEE2; Fri, 7 Mar 2025 16:20:54 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1741364454; bh=7oJXj1/jPOIuPfxk5QMQaAmd4EOU7Boinrb83twt6JU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=UsMgt2cUKNgzpD3D1y/qs83C+bgDZH8ti45od2NwOYBhGbTSxO5uE9gqw88eYiASV qOXaiaht1YguwRSvvDowadBlK6W8UV37zFy8HWp8MQkFDVYQSuN7AUw6vmjT9TmF0u klVtndC1gLjq8keqIjxZoBw7sq01ePFZpvZI6oGh5aFZP6ZII1qCpwvP36w63b1ymx W11XXerLj8/TGlq1ckppBk22aaSrw72m+36tDsVIIxv68y8sAz26enPB/mjqMnoq9Y uGVO4qF04Qaotete/FVbOebw+R7kOeLWLicucuM2FErncq7VktyHpo2TRPgqVibvGw AEf565Bp4fjCQ== Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 08:20:53 -0800 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Jiri Pirko Cc: Tariq Toukan , netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, saeedm@nvidia.com, leon@kernel.org, tariqt@nvidia.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, Gal Pressman Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx5: Fill out devlink dev info only for PFs Message-ID: <20250307082053.6bd879c9@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20250303133200.1505-1-jiri@resnulli.us> <53c284be-f435-4945-a8eb-58278bf499ad@gmail.com> <20250305183016.413bda40@kernel.org> <7bb21136-83e8-4eff-b8f7-dc4af70c2199@gmail.com> <20250306114355.6f1c6c51@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 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.