From: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@gmail.com>,
Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 10/11] staging: qlge: devlink health: use retained error fmsg API
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:32:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZTF2M7VeNtisGBm7@d3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231019074237.7ef255d7@kernel.org>
On 2023-10-19 07:42 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 10:28:03 -0400 Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> > > Humpf. Unrelated to the set, when did qlge grow devlink support?!
> > >
> > > Coiby, do you still use this HW?
> > >
> > > It looks like the driver was moved to staging on account of being
> > > old and unused, and expecting that we'll delete it. Clearly that's
> > > not the case if people are adding devlink support, so should we
> > > move it back?
> >
> > AFAIK this was done by Coiby as an exercise in kernel programming.
> > Improving the debugging dump facilities was one of the tasks in the TODO
> > file.
> >
> > I moved the driver to staging because it had many problems and it had
> > been abandoned by the vendor. There might be some qlge users left but is
> > that reason enough to move the driver back to drivers/net/
> > if there is no one who is interested in doing more than checkpatch
> > fixes on the driver?
>
> Staging is usually an area for code entering the kernel, not leaving.
> We should either suffer with it under drivers/net/ or delete it,
> as you say, nobody is working on significant improvements so having
> the driver in staging is serving no purpose.
>
> How about we delete it completely, and if someone complains bring
> it back under drivers/net ?
That sounds like a reasonable way forward, thank you. I'll send a patch
to do the removal.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-19 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-17 10:53 [PATCH net-next v2 00/11] devlink: retain error in struct devlink_fmsg Przemek Kitszel
2023-10-17 10:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 01/11] " Przemek Kitszel
2023-10-17 10:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 02/11] netdevsim: devlink health: use retained error fmsg API Przemek Kitszel
2023-10-18 1:20 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-17 10:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 03/11] pds_core: " Przemek Kitszel
2023-10-17 11:06 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-17 11:15 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-10-17 11:35 ` Przemek Kitszel
2023-10-17 16:52 ` Nelson, Shannon
2023-10-17 10:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 04/11] bnxt_en: " Przemek Kitszel
2023-10-17 10:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 05/11] hinic: " Przemek Kitszel
2023-10-17 10:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 06/11] octeontx2-af: " Przemek Kitszel
2023-10-17 10:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 07/11] mlxsw: core: " Przemek Kitszel
2023-10-17 10:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 08/11] net/mlx5: " Przemek Kitszel
2023-10-18 16:08 ` Simon Horman
2023-10-17 10:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 09/11] qed: " Przemek Kitszel
2023-10-17 10:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 10/11] staging: qlge: " Przemek Kitszel
2023-10-18 1:15 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-19 14:28 ` Benjamin Poirier
2023-10-19 14:42 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-19 18:32 ` Benjamin Poirier [this message]
2023-10-17 10:53 ` [PATCH net-next v2 11/11] devlink: convert most of devlink_fmsg_*() to return void Przemek Kitszel
2023-10-18 16:10 ` Simon Horman
2023-10-17 11:17 ` [PATCH net-next v2 00/11] devlink: retain error in struct devlink_fmsg Jiri Pirko
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