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 686A017A2E8 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:40:57 +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=1760575257; cv=none; b=EMZjkEJHS9kg8dJA926mjd/L6Y1H5mM2kPSBcgDlVG2XUL1pynHxbY9Df4rj+Kz0s7a9/uS1o0V23xu9Et1B7SKW7RF0WB+bUTimSYHaG9Rw88NJElU1HK2CpwRXABG5LVIbPzxAws0RtKsNpmOuGB9rZtnPDxmn7bwI96T0OC0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1760575257; c=relaxed/simple; bh=GtVw/9f2FJgKJtatJDYWSMPOOzVe4+O2VcRR1M5O1zw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=Xk3be9UceoJSjAXDjbPM2kmXRbsTcJpsu9xauNdi6wvp92ADc/CW4PuNQRnEFJTghQLdUBu0sgUB1TwQ8HkWzjn78xArhFAR6EQ8yFjeduuGbsYvJtXRarDLQvtZbThlc9ziLR8F2smMIfI4JJdVZnV0I40+B/t+QX8B6+VbprU= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=YnblYC5B; 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="YnblYC5B" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 15F48C4CEF8; Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:40:56 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1760575256; bh=GtVw/9f2FJgKJtatJDYWSMPOOzVe4+O2VcRR1M5O1zw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=YnblYC5BZ98AKtvg4hxJQ0qWYw10hPLVCv5vkZTdRXbPDqpSfvXYO7Byst3hRDA7G Gc6gcPWbrlYJDTkvC3apXKpCBkjrUa1/OsZH4S+gBZ2245gMKUYcGmKY8Htdr8oDue v6ACgjV0zceqSdecIK5Mlti7ELvUda7gyur2PTzPI5WL1ueY7sYHT/8U1mLlTimqao tGti+z7VTEEdQxRPt4CSm4r97MSGRwliAuxNHnrVImoTwkVJs56AJQQ52lwDY7EBzO xmMA4aQgM+bIj+t03HEx5zOYoIwdZZtS2Bbm8oJid1ozhD58s1JpJsU3Hs09QwhwzJ pQYiWTTQG+iZw== Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:40:55 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Pavan Chebbi Cc: jgg@ziepe.ca, michael.chan@broadcom.com, dave.jiang@intel.com, saeedm@nvidia.com, Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com, davem@davemloft.net, corbet@lwn.net, edumazet@google.com, gospo@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, selvin.xavier@broadcom.com, leon@kernel.org, kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom.com, Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 4/5] bnxt_fwctl: Add bnxt fwctl device Message-ID: <20251015174055.390d98e8@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20251014081033.1175053-5-pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com> References: <20251014081033.1175053-1-pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com> <20251014081033.1175053-5-pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com> 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 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:10:32 -0700 Pavan Chebbi wrote: > + case HWRM_VNIC_RSS_CFG: Gotta be able to configure basic netdev functions for complex debug! Or whatever the pretend reasons for fwctl were. And AFAIK all Broadcom NIC tooling is aggressively closed source. Frankly I have no idea what the rules are supposed to be for merging code in this joke of a "subsystem". Please stop tagging this with net-next, it's definitely no going via our tree.