On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:23:15AM -0700, Chuck Lever wrote: > Getting rid of ib_query_device() makes sense. Moving the device > attributes into ib_device is nice. Getting rid of ib_device_attr > is of questionable value. Why do we need to go there? > > IB core API changes generate merge conflicts with feature work > in the ULPs. It’s a pain for maintainers. In this particular > case, keeping ib_device_attr would greatly reduce ULP churn. But it will keep a totally nonsenical structure around in the future. Note that the whole in-kernel Verbs API is a bit of a nightmare, so there will be all kinds of larger changes. Better get it right as long as we have as few ULPs as we have now. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
