Re: [RFC] Proposal to address hfi1 UI and EPROM devices

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On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 03:55:02PM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> We also should be able to use any of these schemes to handle our eprom
> reading/writing. Adding eprom to IPoIB as Doug suggested is a fine plan, but
> we technically don't need to do it right now when we could make do with the
> "UI" functionality and hide the details in user space. In the future there
> may well be value in having an eprom capability in the rdma sub-system, but
> for now we believe we can avoid extending the kernel in this regard.

Just to understand better your RFC. Are you asking from the community
excuse do not implement core functionality just because you don't need
it? Am I right?

Thanks

> 
> -Denny
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