On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 12:38:00AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 12:01 AM Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [..] > > All stated above is my opinion, it can be different from yours. > > Yes, but we need to converge to move this forward. Jason was involved > in the current organization for registration, Greg was angling for > this to be core functionality. I have use cases outside of RDMA and > netdev. Parav was ok with the current organization. The SOF folks > already have a proposed incorporation of it. The argument I am hearing > is that "this registration api seems hard for driver writers" when we > have several driver writers who have already taken a look and can make > it work. If you want to follow on with a simpler wrappers for your use > case, great, but I do not yet see anyone concurring with your opinion > that the current organization is irretrievably broken or too obscure > to use. That's kind of because I tuned out of this thread a long time ago :) I do agree with Leon that I think the current patch is not the correct way to do this the easiest, but don't have a competing proposal to show what I mean. Yet. Let's see what happens after 5.10-rc1 is out, it's too late now for any of this for this next merge window so we can not worry about it for a few weeks. thanks, greg k-h
