On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 10:26:59AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 02:55:26PM +0200, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > So, what happened to at least the Intel SOF driver usage? That was the > > original user of this bus (before it was renamed), surely that patchset > > should be floating around somewhere in Intel, right? > > The first user was irdma (the New Intel RDMA driver): > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20200520070415.3392210-1-jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx/ > > (look at patch 1, search for virtbus) My apologies, you are correct, it's been so long "in flight" that I can't remember... > I kicked it off when I said I was sick of RDMA RoCE drivers > re-implementing the driver core register/unregister and module > management to share a PCI device between netdev and RDMA. > > This has been going on for almost two years now. I did not think it > would be so hard. It really isn't, I have no idea why it has taken so long. For a while I thought it was people doing the traditional, "if I submit something so bad, it will make the maintainer take pity and just do it correctly themselves" method of kernel development, and if so, it failed horribly. Now I just have no idea why it has taken so long, sad... greg k-h
