Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] mlx5 ConnectX control misc driver

[Andy Gospodarek]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 09:24:29AM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 3/22/24 1:32 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 
> > It's the middle of the merge window, not much we can actually do and
> > this patch series itself couldn't be applied as-is, so it's hard to see
> > what could have happened on my end...
> > 
> 
> The proposal was sent a week before the end of the last development
> cycle, and I believe the intent was to motivate discussion around a
> concrete proposal to converge on an acceptable solution before sending
> patches.
> 
> On your end, what would be helpful is either a simple yes this seems
> reasonable or no you don't like it for reasons X, Y, and Z.
> 

Well said, David.

I would totally support doing something like this in a fairly generic
way that could be leveraged/instantiated by drivers that will allow
communication/inspection of hardware blocks in the datapath.  There are
lots of different ways this could go, so feedback on this would help get
us all moving in the right direction.