On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > We can probably live with that as well if it's required to keep fwctl in an RDMA driver and out of pure netdevs.
