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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 11:03:21 +0000
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] mlx5 ConnectX control misc driver
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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,

greg k-h