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[82.0.78.162]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u12-20020a05600c19cc00b0041469869d11sm3867506wmq.47.2024.04.04.13.53.14 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:53:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] mlx5 ConnectX control misc driver To: Jason Gunthorpe , Andrew Lunn Cc: David Ahern , Jakub Kicinski , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Christoph Hellwig , Saeed Mahameed , Arnd Bergmann , Leon Romanovsky , Jiri Pirko , Leonid Bloch , Itay Avraham , Saeed Mahameed , Aron Silverton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Andy Gospodarek References: <510c1b6b-1738-4baa-bdba-54d478633598@kernel.org> <20240322135826.1c4655e2@kernel.org> <20240322154027.5555780a@kernel.org> <1cd2a70c-17b8-4421-b70b-3c0199a84a6a@kernel.org> <0ea32dd4-f408-5870-77eb-f18899f1ad44@gmail.com> <20240402184055.GP946323@nvidia.com> <83025203-fefb-d828-724d-259e5df7c1b2@gmail.com> <20240404202536.GN1723999@nvidia.com> From: Edward Cree Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 21:53:14 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20240404202536.GN1723999@nvidia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 04/04/2024 21:25, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > For instance there is a bunch that configure the UEFI option > rom. Various devices can PXE boot, iSCSI boot and so on. Sounds like a perfect example of something that should have a standardised cross-vendor configuration mechanism, rather than every vendor having its own special tool as is sadly the case today.