From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Or Gerlitz Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V1 0/3] net/mlx4_core: Allow setting init-time device specific parameters Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:02:05 +0200 Message-ID: <5501803D.8020101@mellanox.com> References: <1426064933-29072-1-git-send-email-amirv@mellanox.com> <20150311.131457.1314699780103858026.davem@davemloft.net> <20150312090042.GB1092@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , Amir Vadai , netdev , Hadar Hen Zion , , Tal Alon , , , , , , , To: Greg KH , Hadar Hen Zion Return-path: Received: from mail-am1on0077.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([157.56.112.77]:55508 "EHLO emea01-am1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751370AbbCLMCg (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:02:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150312090042.GB1092@kroah.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 3/12/2015 11:00 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:07:35AM +0200, Hadar Hen Zion wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:14 PM, David Miller wrote: >>> From: Amir Vadai >>> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:08:50 +0200 >>> >>>> Also, customers are paying for a very sophisticated piece of hardware, and we would like to enable power user to tweak it in some situtations. Of course the default mode should be used in 99% of the use cases. >>> How much money someone pays for your hardware has nothing to do with the standards by which we design userspace interfaces to configure these devices. >>> >>> These textual interfaces are arbitrary, and you are choosing it only because you cannot come up with a more reasonable scheme, >>> >>> I'm not applying these changes. >>> --- >> In previous conversations Greg suggested us to use configfs. >> >> Is this case a misuse of configfs? maybe configfs should be deprecated... Greg? > No, this has nothing to do with the validity of configfs, please re-read what David said to you. Greg, So.. M2-- reading Dave's words I understand that he's against textual interfacessuch as configfs and prefers others. This brings two questions to the table (1) do we need to deprecate these textual interfaces / configfs and avoid using them for configuration purposes with new code? (2) does programmable interface such as netlink is the way to go for our purposes here (and elsewhere)? Or.