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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <327ae9b5-6e7d-4f8b-90b3-ee6f8d164c0d@lunn.ch> Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 04:41:52PM CET, andrew@lunn.ch wrote: >> What if it would not be unique, should they then proceed to add generic >> (other word would be "common") param, and make the other driver/s use >> it? Without deprecating the old method ofc. > >If it is useful, somebody else will copy it and it will become >common. If nobody copies it, its probably not useful :-) > >A lot of what we do in networking comes from standard. Its the >standards which gives us interoperability. Also, there is the saying, >form follows function. There are only so many ways you can implement >the same thing. > >Is anybody truly building unique hardware, whos form somehow does not >follow function and is yet still standards compliant? More likely, >they are just the first, and others will copy or re-invent it sooner >or later. Wait, standard in protocol sense is completely parallel to the hw/fw implementations. They may be (and in reality they are) a lots of tunables to tweak specific hw/fw internals. So modern nics are very unique. Still providing the same inputs and outputs, protocol-wise. > >So for me, unique is a pretty high bar to reach. > > Andrew >