From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@broadcom.com>,
Aron Silverton <aron.silverton@oracle.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Itay Avraham <itayavr@nvidia.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>,
Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>,
Leonid Bloch <lbloch@nvidia.com>,
linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
"Nelson, Shannon" <shannon.nelson@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Introduce fwctl subystem
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:59:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250311135921.GF7027@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6af1429e-c36a-459c-9b35-6a9f55c3b2ac@kernel.org>
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 12:23:19PM +0100, David Ahern wrote:
> On 3/6/25 12:21 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 12:41:35PM -0800, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> >
> >> How do you imagine this driver/core structure should look like? Who
> >> will be the top dir maintainer?
> >
> > I would set something like this up more like DRM. Every driver
> > maintainer gets commit rights, some rules about no uAPIs, or at least
> > other acks before merging uAPI. Use the tree for staging shared
> > branches.
>
> why no uapi? Core driver can have knowledge of h/w resources across all
> use cases. For example, our core driver supports a generid netlink based
> dump (no set operations; get and dump only so maybe that should be the
> restriction?) of all objects regardless of how created -- netdev, ib,
> etc. -- and with much more detail.
Because, we want to make sure that UAPI will be aligned with relevant
subsystems without any way to bypass them.
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-11 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-28 0:26 [PATCH v5 0/8] Introduce fwctl subystem Jason Gunthorpe
2025-02-28 0:26 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] fwctl: Add basic structure for a class subsystem with a cdev Jason Gunthorpe
2025-02-28 0:26 ` [PATCH v5 2/8] fwctl: Basic ioctl dispatch for the character device Jason Gunthorpe
2025-02-28 0:26 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] fwctl: FWCTL_INFO to return basic information about the device Jason Gunthorpe
2025-02-28 0:26 ` [PATCH v5 4/8] taint: Add TAINT_FWCTL Jason Gunthorpe
2025-02-28 0:26 ` [PATCH v5 5/8] fwctl: FWCTL_RPC to execute a Remote Procedure Call to device firmware Jason Gunthorpe
2025-02-28 0:26 ` [PATCH v5 6/8] fwctl: Add documentation Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-15 2:53 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-02-28 0:26 ` [PATCH v5 7/8] fwctl/mlx5: Support for communicating with mlx5 fw Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-02 12:11 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-03-04 17:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-02-28 0:26 ` [PATCH v5 8/8] mlx5: Create an auxiliary device for fwctl_mlx5 Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-02 12:09 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-03-04 1:53 ` [PATCH v5 0/8] Introduce fwctl subystem Jakub Kicinski
2025-03-04 14:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-04 17:59 ` Saeed Mahameed
2025-03-05 0:42 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-03-05 13:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-05 13:43 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-03-05 15:08 ` Jiri Pirko
2025-03-05 15:22 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-03-05 15:56 ` Jiri Pirko
2025-03-05 18:17 ` David Ahern
2025-03-05 18:28 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-03-05 20:41 ` Saeed Mahameed
2025-03-05 23:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-06 7:29 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-03-11 11:23 ` David Ahern
2025-03-11 13:59 ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2025-03-12 9:31 ` David Ahern
2025-03-12 10:34 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2025-03-14 22:34 ` David Ahern
2025-03-16 7:34 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2025-03-17 12:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-11 14:27 ` Nelson, Shannon
2025-03-13 12:30 ` David Ahern
2025-03-13 12:48 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-03-13 19:59 ` Nelson, Shannon
2025-03-14 5:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-03-14 18:39 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-03-14 18:09 ` Jacob Keller
2025-03-17 12:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-17 19:00 ` David Ahern
2025-03-17 20:33 ` Keller, Jacob E
2025-03-18 13:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-03-18 13:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-03-18 15:39 ` Dave Jiang
2025-03-18 16:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-03-19 5:48 ` Przemek Kitszel
2025-03-19 8:14 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-03-19 10:46 ` Przemek Kitszel
2025-03-19 11:22 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-03-19 8:17 ` Leon Romanovsky
2025-03-18 22:07 ` Keller, Jacob E
2025-03-06 2:16 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-03-20 23:22 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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