[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next 01/15] virtchnl: add virtchnl version 2 ops

[Shannon Nelson]

On 4/3/23 3:20 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 15:01:55 -0700 Shannon Nelson wrote:
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/virtchnl2.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/virtchnl2.h
>>
>> If this is to be a standardized interface, why is this header buried in
>> the driver specific directory instead of something more accessible like
>> include/linux/idpf?
> 
> The noise about this driver being "a standard" is quite confusing.
> 
> Are you considering implementing any of it?
> 
> I haven't heard of anyone who is yet, so I thought all this talk of
> a standard is pretty empty from the technical perspective :(

Just that they seem to be pushing it to become a standard through OASIS,
as they infer by pointing to their OASIS docs in this patch, and I was 
under the (mistaken?) impression that this would be the One Driver for 
any device that implemented the HW/FW interface, kinda like virtio.  If 
that's true, then why would the driver live under the Intel directory?

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