On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 08:52:48AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > I was thinking on this some more, and we don't really need to wait for > > netlink or to add uverbs stuff to netlink. > > > > We should add a new ioctl to return the 'driver description' from > > uverbs. > > > > This changes the rdma-core flow a bit as it cannot bind the driver > > until after opening the uverbs FD, but it sure makes more sense .. > > It may be helpful for rdma-core, but for Steve's work it won't. He is > not supposed to touch uverbs file just to understand on which software > RDMA device to operate. It means that knowledge of driver_id will be > exposed over netlink anyway, and I think that it won't be cleanest thing > to duplicate interfaces. Steve's problem is entirely inside rdma-core though.. Jason
