On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 11:16:13AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 14:13 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 04:38:13PM +0530, Potnuri Bharat Teja wrote: > > > On Tuesday, August 08/06/19, 2019 at 15:18:49 +0530, Leon Romanovsky > > > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 11:09:02AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 04:36:53PM +0530, Potnuri Bharat Teja > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > On Monday, July 07/29/19, 2019 at 13:16:20 +0530, Potnuri > > > > > > Bharat Teja wrote: > > > > > > > On Sunday, July 07/28/19, 2019 at 14:07:49 +0530, Leon > > > > > > > Romanovsky wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 03:14:24PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 11:19:28PM +0530, Potnuri Bharat > > > > > > > > > Teja wrote: > > > > > > > > > > match_device handler is no longer needed after latest > > > > > > > > > > device binding changes. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > > > > > > > > providers/cxgb4/dev.c | 41 -------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > --------------- > > > > > > > > > > 1 file changed, 41 deletions(-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Do you know if we can also drop the same code in cxgb3? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Can we simply remove cxgb3? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am in talks with the people here. I'll confirm it soon. > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Jason/Doug/Leon, > > > > > > Chelsio is fine with removing cxgb3. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > > > > > Which parts of cxgb3 can we remove? RDMA, scsi, net or everything? > > > > > > I can only say RDMA. For net and scsi parts of cxgb3, the > > > corresponding > > > maintainers might request for their removal. > > > Should I send a patch removing RDMA cxgb3? > > > > It will be the best variant. > > > > Thanks > > > > > Thanks. > > I'm not entirely sure that I want it removed yet. The cxgb3 isn't the > most stellar device, but it will do 40GBit/s. That's still a very > respectable speed (unlike say mthca that was mostly 10GBit/s with only a > short run of 20GBit/s devices before it switched over to mlx4). So a > cxgb3 based home system is still something very usable. Are we sure we > want to remove this? I'm sceptical that such home users (who want RDMA part of cxgb3) exist. My stake here is to remove as much as possible not-maintained driver to simplify overall maintenance effort. Thanks > > -- > Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> > GPG KeyID: B826A3330E572FDD > Fingerprint = AE6B 1BDA 122B 23B4 265B 1274 B826 A333 0E57 2FDD
