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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
To: Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@broadcom•com>
Cc: jgg@ziepe•ca, michael.chan@broadcom•com, dave.jiang@intel•com,
	saeedm@nvidia•com, Jonathan.Cameron@huawei•com,
	davem@davemloft•net, corbet@lwn•net, edumazet@google•com,
	gospo@broadcom•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org, pabeni@redhat•com,
	andrew+netdev@lunn•ch, selvin.xavier@broadcom•com,
	leon@kernel•org, kalesh-anakkur.purayil@broadcom•com,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 4/5] bnxt_fwctl: Add bnxt fwctl device
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:40:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251015174055.390d98e8@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251014081033.1175053-5-pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com>

On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:10:32 -0700 Pavan Chebbi wrote:
> +	case HWRM_VNIC_RSS_CFG:

Gotta be able to configure basic netdev functions for complex debug!
Or whatever the pretend reasons for fwctl were.

And AFAIK all Broadcom NIC tooling is aggressively closed source.

Frankly I have no idea what the rules are supposed to be for merging
code in this joke of a "subsystem". Please stop tagging this with
net-next, it's definitely no going via our tree.

  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-16  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-14  8:10 [PATCH net-next v5 0/5] bnxt_fwctl: fwctl for Broadcom Netxtreme devices Pavan Chebbi
2025-10-14  8:10 ` [PATCH net-next v5 1/5] bnxt_en: Move common definitions to include/linux/bnxt/ Pavan Chebbi
2025-10-14  8:10 ` [PATCH net-next v5 2/5] bnxt_en: Refactor aux bus functions to be more generic Pavan Chebbi
2025-10-19 12:52   ` Leon Romanovsky
2026-01-15  9:28     ` Pavan Chebbi
2026-01-15 11:00       ` Leon Romanovsky
2026-01-15 12:21         ` Pavan Chebbi
2025-10-14  8:10 ` [PATCH net-next v5 3/5] bnxt_en: Create an aux device for fwctl Pavan Chebbi
2025-10-14  8:10 ` [PATCH net-next v5 4/5] bnxt_fwctl: Add bnxt fwctl device Pavan Chebbi
2025-10-16  0:40   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-10-28 16:44   ` Jonathan Cameron
2025-10-14  8:10 ` [PATCH net-next v5 5/5] bnxt_fwctl: Add documentation entries Pavan Chebbi
2025-10-28 16:46   ` Jonathan Cameron
2025-10-29 13:36     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-11-02 10:45       ` Leon Romanovsky

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