netdev call - Nov 21st

Hi,

The bi-weekly netdev call at https://bbb.lwn.net/b/jak-wkr-seg-hjn
is scheduled tomorrow at 8:30 am (PT) / 5:30 pm (~EU).

So far the only agenda item is a minor update on CI, please send other topics!

In terms of the review rotation - this week's reviewer is Intel.

Hi Jakub, all,

I would like to ask about the preferred mechanism for drivers to dump state information from firmware to user-space.

I recall that at least for the NFP driver this was implemented using ethtool -w/-W. But that was some time ago and I'd like to understand if that is still the preferred method.

Thanks to everyone who attended!

Notes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12BUCwVjMY_wlj6truzL4U0c54db6Neft6qirfZcynbE/

I forgot to mention one thing:

The "cc_maintainers" check in patchwork has been improved, it will now ignore emails which we haven’t heard from in 3 years (1 year if the author and missing CC emails share the domain).

Excellent, IIRC this was discussed at Netconf.
Let's see how this helps.