On 04/19/2016 04:44 PM, Hefty, Sean wrote:
>> Right - and the RDMA uAPI has always had an integrated driver-bypass
>> channel as part of the verb uAPI calls, extending that to allow for
>> new-driver-specific calls seems very natural.
>
> I remain unconvinced that having the equivalent of:
>
> 1 open unrelated-interface
> 2 ioctl open-file
> 3 close unrelated-interface
>
> is desirable. If you want to push for a generic mechanism for mapping NIC resources into user space, then separate that from the device implementation.
>
> Doug, can you weigh in here with your thoughts?
>
Yeah. I've been off working on issues related to 4.6-rc (interfaces
that are DOA). Give me a little bit to catch up on the thread and I'll
weigh in.
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