On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 05:16:28PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 02:18:26PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 05:16:08PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > > Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > > I know this is a topic proposed for the maintainers summit, but given > > > > the number of people who seem to have an opinion and be interested in > > > > dicussing it, would a session at LPC be a better candidate ? I don't > > > > expect the maintainer summit to invite all relevant experts from all > > > > subsystems, that would likely overflow the room. > > > > > > > > The downside of an LPC session is that it could easily turn into a > > > > heated stage fight, and there are probably also quite a few arguments > > > > that can't really be made in the open :-S > > > > > > A separate LPC session for a subsystem or set of subsystems to explore > > > local passthrough policy makes sense, but that is not the primary > > > motivation for also requesting a Maintainer Summit topic slot. The > > > primary motivation is discussing the provenance and navigation of > > > cross-subsystem NAKs especially in an environment where the lines > > > between net, mem, and storage are increasingly blurry at the device > > > level. > > > > Would there be enough space at the maintainers' summit for all the > > relevant people to join the discussion ? > > Who exactly would you consider the "relevant people" here? It's been a > wide-ranging conversation/thread :) I'd say the maintainers of the related subsystems/drivers, or the relevant open-source stacks, as well as the people who are pushing for a change, and overall the main stakeholders who took part in the discussions so far. I don't think it would be very nice to discuss this topic and make a decision behind closed doors while excluding some of those people from the process. I have opinions on the overall topic, but mostly related to cameras, so I wouldn't consider myself as relevant when it comes to net/mem/storage, mlx5 or fwctl in particular. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
