Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 00/15] nbl driver for Nebulamatrix NICs

On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:53:04 -0800
Jakub Kicinski [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:06:49 +0000 Simon Horman wrote:

quoted

As per Jakub's advice in his review of v1 [*],
Please try to create a minimal driver in the order of ~5kLoC.  

Perhaps other maintainers will disagree, but for ease of review
and to avoid the huge reposts perhaps we should consider merging
something like patches 1 and 3* first, as the initial series.
And then you can build up the driver from there in reasonable,
5kLoC-at-a-time series?

 * patch 3 currently includes things which do not seem machine
   generated / like register descriptors like structs added to
   nbl_def_channel.h and nbl_include.h

Part of the size problem is that the driver has multiple layers:
resources, channels, etc and lots of code that tries to be common
across OS's. This can lead to bloat.  Very few drivers have done
that successfully.