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

From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 21:35:40 +0300

On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 07:06:53PM +0100, Edward Cree wrote:
> #include <disclaimer.h>
> 
> On 04/04/2024 18:47, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > The configurables exist as they are
> > and need to be supported, in one way or another, by the kernel.
> 
> Why?  What does the kernel get out of it?
> 
> Maybe *you* need them to be supported, but maybe you should have
>  thought of that earlier in the design process.  ("A failure on
>  your part to foresee the eminently foreseeable does not
>  constitute an emergency on mine.")
> If we let folks bypass our standards with a _fait accompli_, we
>  don't really have standards in the first place.

Sorry, who are "we" and what are "our standards"?

And, please, please reread the thread, it is not about devlink at all.

Thanks