Re: [TECH TOPIC] UALink driver upstreaming

[Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 02:18:40PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM Konstantin Sinyuk <sinyuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Longer term, as UAL adoption grows and multiple vendors hook into the
> > framework, the natural home would be a dedicated drivers/ual/, just as
> > CXL evolved into its own subsystem.
> 
> If you already know there will be other things than accelerators there,
> so it's more like, i don't know, PCI or greybus, then put it into its own
> subsystem in drivers/ualink from day one, I think drivers/ual is a bit
> terse, the world is full och TLA:s already, also that is its actual name
> isn't it? Hard to miss if someone is looking for it.
> 
> Your merges can still go through some submaintainer like Greg, or
> DRM, if they need some shepherding to start out. After all that's how
> drivers/accel is managed, through DRM.

I agree it should be drivers/ualink from day 1.

I like the idea of the flow through drm.

> 
> Just my €0.01.
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
>