On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 09:04:26PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote: > The RDMA stack currently allows drivers to export their own interfaces directly to user space. At this point, I see no reason why we should block a driver for following what has been an acceptable practice for years. Dennis fixed the write/writev issue, which would make the hfi1 driver the only device in the RDMA tree with an acceptable interface. > > If the RDMA "community" defines the ultimate ioctl interface ever created, great. Every driver added after that interface has been defined and merged can be forced to use it. Why do you think that ioctl interface is the only one which is "acceptable"? Did you consider netdev? What about netdev macros + ioctls? > > - Sean > -- > 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
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