On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 01:51:11PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > But if you agree the netdev doesn't need it seems like a fairly > straightforward way to unblock your progress. I'm trying to understand what you are suggesting here. We have many scenarios where mlx5_core spawns all kinds of different devices, including recovery cases where there is no networking at all and only fwctl. So we can't just discard the aux dev or mlx5_core triggered setup without breaking scenarios. However, you seem to be suggesting that netdev-only configurations (ie netdev loaded but no rdma loaded) should disable fwctl. Is that the case? All else would remain the same. It is very ugly but I could see a technical path to do it, and would consider it if that brings peace. Jason
