On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 04:47:04PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
4. so from now on, we can patch hfi with 300 patches per release that deal with extensions to functionality exposed by the char device and we don't care to solve generic problems that has nothing to do with the HW used for the device. Really?
There is certainly a large number of patches pending for 4.6 I'll give you that, and yes it is greater than 300. However, these cover 3 drivers, qib, hfi1, and rdmavt. The bulk of that work is the refactoring of the verbs code from qib and hfi1 to rdmavt which was done in a very incremental process. The vast majority of these pending patches are not related to "extensions to functionality exposed by the char device".
In fact, I'd say that the verbs refactoring is precisely solving a generic problem. So I can't agree with you here.
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