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

[David Ahern]

On 2/11/24 4:03 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 10:01:33PM -0700, David Ahern wrote:
>>>> BTW, there is already a broadcom driver under drivers/misc that seems to
>>>> have a lot of overlap capability wise to this driver. Perhaps a Broadcom
>>>> person could chime in.
>>>
>>> I'm not aware. Or do you mean bcm-vk? That's a video encoder.
>>
>> If that specific piece of S/W is a video encoder, why isn't it under
>> drivers/video? Scanning the code it seems to me to fall under the open
>> channel between userspace and F/W which is a common paradigm. But I do
>> not want this to distract from this patch set; really I was just
>> browsing existing drivers for any overlap.
> 
> It is an "offload-engine" type of thing that was added before we had the
> specific subsystem for it.  It should be moved to drivers/accel/ one of
> these days, want to volunteer to help out with that?  :)
> 

Thanks for the background.

As for volunteering to move it, I believe Broadcom has more kernel
engineers than Enfabrica. :-)