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 461432837D; Sun, 11 Feb 2024 17:01:38 +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=1707670899; cv=none; b=juDNsVBkh9PWxBI0y3amyUC8Hg36bLmZShYRr+6PYr+v3ZewBC5X23vUVeSsns8eTm3SyVfCpXluGcytXzzzSFg7lK5dBstGkj4MTLQJjpznaCdM5Zoz4QqITNf8LMNW8MpNDNnSMgUTZjSyipPvy4pc0+CzD8xnQj8KqWCbAGE= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1707670899; c=relaxed/simple; bh=e6Z2oy34W8X6Wf/2NjUc/VUdRyZnfQp5k22nZ0yw4yY=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=ibsKI+JYaqyEdjxxeFwYZrDLw5CZFflK1DHCcQDjNwrpqe4E5lUgG9ZhAAlP8aw+qzs3zhaQs5O2pGvwr4ZSsekKpnScqaFw2MsaZQqaZgSqkXPjhG1xanZ/EQJErewsqYhtuY5Nphzsu3zeL7Q6giNKMNK5Dq6+ruSAcke2iRU= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=JVxrlf6v; 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="JVxrlf6v" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F2322C433C7; Sun, 11 Feb 2024 17:01:37 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1707670898; bh=e6Z2oy34W8X6Wf/2NjUc/VUdRyZnfQp5k22nZ0yw4yY=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To:From; b=JVxrlf6vzJpyAkdJ6PERTVDgZBduqfZgbXJXnlXKWLG3veUC21Le4s6bHqm1+CTcr JurTac2K7is4A27zjF1cnKgJ375rsAHUE6lzB7jUc5mmYyud70slxcFGGhfly33dgF 23VdRfr3sLOJTrtiqtIx1I40uzXq+WK/5fqFs6XRIs5NFO0bado0d0K3dZ9cF3bTxO Ox6OVn7GqArloXjZjbRfMYmx12bzuuLofd765lvYViRhaqWS2i8hyRvVgt/VR19yxI C/BbUvFv5hDM05Ic7qOLa795nLaNx8XLqAzAP8wGVMbnJMcy5IiGzIVghMWYa0r93/ PTj2xfOAkrkZA== Message-ID: <24504183-6118-4bf3-9d83-9037cd5635ce@kernel.org> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 10:01:37 -0700 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] mlx5 ConnectX control misc driver Content-Language: en-US To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jakub Kicinski , Saeed Mahameed , Arnd Bergmann , Leon Romanovsky , Jason Gunthorpe , Jiri Pirko , Leonid Bloch , Itay Avraham , Saeed Mahameed , Aron Silverton , Christoph Hellwig , andrew.gospodarek@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <20240207072435.14182-1-saeed@kernel.org> <20240207070342.21ad3e51@kernel.org> <20240208181555.22d35b61@kernel.org> <2bdc5510-801a-4601-87a3-56eb941d661a@kernel.org> <20240209145828.30e1d000@kernel.org> <2024021139-feast-subtitle-f6e3@gregkh> From: David Ahern In-Reply-To: <2024021139-feast-subtitle-f6e3@gregkh> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2/11/24 4:03 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 10:01:33PM -0700, David Ahern wrote: >>>> BTW, there is already a broadcom driver under drivers/misc that seems to >>>> have a lot of overlap capability wise to this driver. Perhaps a Broadcom >>>> person could chime in. >>> >>> I'm not aware. Or do you mean bcm-vk? That's a video encoder. >> >> If that specific piece of S/W is a video encoder, why isn't it under >> drivers/video? Scanning the code it seems to me to fall under the open >> channel between userspace and F/W which is a common paradigm. But I do >> not want this to distract from this patch set; really I was just >> browsing existing drivers for any overlap. > > It is an "offload-engine" type of thing that was added before we had the > specific subsystem for it. It should be moved to drivers/accel/ one of > these days, want to volunteer to help out with that? :) > Thanks for the background. As for volunteering to move it, I believe Broadcom has more kernel engineers than Enfabrica. :-)