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From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:11:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1135984304.13318.50.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051230080002.GA7438@kroah.com>

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 00:00 -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> >   - The driver still uses EXPORT_SYMBOL, for consistency with other
> >     code in drivers/infiniband
> 
> Why would that matter?

I don't want to do something gratuitously different to the prevailing
set of code in which it lives.

> >   - We're still using ioctls instead of sysfs or configfs in some
> >     cases, to maintain userspace compatibility
> 
> Compatibility with what?  The driver isn't in the kernel tree yet, so
> there's no old kernel versions to remain compatibile with :)

We already ship userspace code to customers that relies on the ioctl
interfaces.

> I also noticed that you are still using the uint64_t type variable
> types, can you please switch to the proper kernel types instead (u64 in
> this specific example.)

Yes, we'll use u64 for internal variables, and __u64 for stuff exported
to userspace, etc.

	<b


  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-30 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-29  0:31 [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 1 of 20] Introduce __memcpy_toio32 Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 2 of 20] memcpy32 for x86_64 Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 3 of 20] Add memcpy_toio32 to each arch Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 4 of 20] Define BITS_PER_BYTE Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 5 of 20] ipath - driver core header files Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  8:18   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-29 14:15     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 6 of 20] ipath - driver debugging headers Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  8:22   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 7 of 20] ipath - MMIO copy routines Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 8 of 20] ipath - core driver, part 1 of 4 Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-30  8:39   ` Greg KH
2005-12-30 23:47     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-31  0:12       ` Greg KH
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 9 of 20] ipath - core driver, part 2 " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - core driver, part 3 " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-30 18:46   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-30 23:50     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-31  8:36       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 11 of 20] ipath - core driver, part 4 " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  2:19   ` [openib-general] " Roland Dreier
2005-12-29 14:21     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-30  8:12   ` Greg KH
2005-12-30 23:17     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-31  0:08       ` Greg KH
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 12 of 20] ipath - misc driver support code Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-30  8:25   ` Greg KH
2005-12-30 23:10     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-31  0:13       ` Greg KH
2005-12-30 18:15   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 13 of 20] ipath - routines used by upper layer driver code Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 14 of 20] ipath - infiniband verbs header Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  8:21   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-29 14:22     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 15 of 20] ipath - infiniband verbs support, part 1 of 3 Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 16 of 20] path - infiniband verbs support, part 2 " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 17 of 20] ipath - infiniband verbs support, part 3 " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 19:24   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-30  3:19     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 18 of 20] ipath - infiniband management datagram support Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 19 of 20] ipath - kbuild infrastructure Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 20 of 20] ipath - integrate driver into infiniband " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 19:01 ` [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver Horst von Brand
2005-12-29 19:26   ` Lee Revell
2005-12-31  5:36     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-02 16:05     ` Horst von Brand
2006-01-02 16:22       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-30  3:17   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-30  8:00 ` Greg KH
2005-12-30 23:11   ` Bryan O'Sullivan [this message]
2005-12-31  0:10     ` Greg KH
2005-12-31  1:40       ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-02 20:35         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-02 22:22           ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-04 21:26           ` Roland Dreier
2006-01-05 15:28             ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-03 17:27         ` Greg KH
2006-01-03 20:54           ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-03 20:57             ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-03 21:24               ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-03 21:26                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-04  3:33                   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-04 21:28             ` [openib-general] " Roland Dreier
2006-01-05 15:31               ` Bryan O'Sullivan

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