On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 10:26:59AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 02:55:26PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
So, what happened to at least the Intel SOF driver usage? That was the original user of this bus (before it was renamed), surely that patchset should be floating around somewhere in Intel, right?
The first user was irdma (the New Intel RDMA driver):
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20200520070415.3392210-1-jeffrey.t.kirshe...
(look at patch 1, search for virtbus)
My apologies, you are correct, it's been so long "in flight" that I can't remember...
I kicked it off when I said I was sick of RDMA RoCE drivers re-implementing the driver core register/unregister and module management to share a PCI device between netdev and RDMA.
This has been going on for almost two years now. I did not think it would be so hard.
It really isn't, I have no idea why it has taken so long.
For a while I thought it was people doing the traditional, "if I submit something so bad, it will make the maintainer take pity and just do it correctly themselves" method of kernel development, and if so, it failed horribly. Now I just have no idea why it has taken so long, sad...
greg k-h