On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 09:32:54AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 04:42:03PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 10:00:36 -0400 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > I never agreed to that formulation. I suggested that perhaps runtime > > > configurations where netdev is the only driver using the HW could be > > > disabled (ie a netdev exclusion, not a rdma inclusion). > > > > I thought you were arguing that me opposing the addition was > > "maintainer overreach". As in me telling other parts of the kernel > > what is and isn't allowed. Do I not get a say what gets merged under > > drivers/net/ now? > > The PCI core drivers are a shared resource jointly maintained by all > the subsytems that use them. They are maintained by their respective > maintainers. Saeed/etc in this case. > > It would be inappropriate for your preferences to supersede Saeed's > when he is a maintainer of the mlx5_core driver and fwctl. Please try > and get Saeed on board with your plan. > > If the placement under drivers/net makes this confusing then we can > certainly change the directory names. I suggested it before to Jakub and it looks like he is not opposing to it. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250211075553.GF17863@unreal/ Thanks > > Jason >
