On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 04:10:27PM +0000, Catangiu, Adrian Costin wrote:

Hi Greg,

After your previous reply on this thread we started considering to provide this interface and framework/functionality through a userspace service instead of a kernel interface.
The latest iteration on this evolving patch-set doesn’t have strong reasons for living in the kernel anymore - the only objectively strong advantage would be easier driving of ecosystem integration; but I am not sure that's a good enough reason to create a new kernel interface.

I am now looking into adding this through Systemd. Either as a pluggable service or maybe even a systemd builtin offering.

What are your thoughts on it?

I'll gladly drop this patch if it's not needed in the kernel, thanks for
letting me know.

greg k-h