Re: [PATCH 0/7] IB/hfi1: Remove write() and use ioctl() for user access

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On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:55:59AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
Basically, no maintainer would take a networking driver that doesn't
live in one of the networking subsystems. Drivers generally don't just
get to opt-out of the established common APIs. This is why is so
tasteless to propose a hfi1 eeprom cdev, for instance.

Point taken on eprom cdev. We should be able to simply drop the last two patches of this series. We are also looking into Christoph's suggestion that the right place to plug in the eprom stuff is drivers/nvmem [1].

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-rdma&m=146098495706509&w=2

-Denny
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