Re: [RFC PATCH 0/12] drm/fabric: vendor-neutral topology infrastructure for scale-up accelerator interconnects

From: Jakub Kicinski

Date: Fri Sep 25 2026 - 15:14:25 EST


On Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:12:25 -0400 Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> I do understand the feeling here :(
>
> But I do hope that you reconsider your position here. We had such a great
> experience with the drm-ras using the netlink and I was really hoping that
> we could just reproduce the same experience here.
>
> Netlink is such an incredible API.
>
> Would it help if I take the maintainership of this drm-fabric netlink
> along with the drm-ras one, ensuring the same consistent and clean usage?

Hard call, I have nothing to complain about with the drm-ras work.
Purely worried about the time :( Well, that, and DRMs general love
of Rust which seems to be about 10x less development efficient for us..

Let's start by feeding this + the spec into your LLM
https://github.com/masoncl/review-prompts/blob/main/kernel/subsystem/netlink.md