From: Adit Ranadive <aditr-pghWNbHTmq7QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>,
dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>,
Jason Gunthorpe
<jgunthorpe-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>,
Laurence Oberman
<loberman-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next V1 0/8] Export vendors specific ABIs
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 10:32:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0b8136eb-d9da-5543-8622-482afe92e5fa@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1474195823-10429-1-git-send-email-leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
On Sun Sep 18 2016 03:50:15 GMT-0700 (PDT), Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> The consolidate library revealed the fact that vendor specific
> structures and defines are copy/pasted between kernel and user-space.
>
> This patch set moves these headers from internal driver directory to common
> place and unifies their name to be drivername-abi.h, so it will be easily shared
> by numerous libraries supported in https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core
>
I had asked this to Leon offline but he recommended to ask on the ML.
What happens if this shared functionality is split between multiple files? Can we
just add them in the same folder (so uapi/rdma/provider-abi1.h,
uapi/rdma/provider-abi2.h, etc.)?
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-18 10:50 [PATCH rdma-next V1 0/8] Export vendors specific ABIs Leon Romanovsky
[not found] ` <1474195823-10429-1-git-send-email-leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-18 10:50 ` [PATCH rdma-next V1 1/8] IB/mlx5: Move and decouple user vendor structures Leon Romanovsky
2016-09-18 10:50 ` [PATCH rdma-next V1 2/8] IB/cxgb3: Move " Leon Romanovsky
[not found] ` <1474195823-10429-3-git-send-email-leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-19 15:30 ` Steve Wise
2016-09-18 10:50 ` [PATCH rdma-next V1 3/8] IB/cxgb4: " Leon Romanovsky
[not found] ` <1474195823-10429-4-git-send-email-leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-19 15:30 ` Steve Wise
2016-09-18 10:50 ` [PATCH rdma-next V1 4/8] IB/mlx4: " Leon Romanovsky
2016-09-18 10:50 ` [PATCH rdma-next V1 5/8] IB/ocrdma: " Leon Romanovsky
2016-09-18 10:50 ` [PATCH rdma-next V1 6/8] IB/nes: " Leon Romanovsky
2016-09-18 10:50 ` [PATCH rdma-next V1 7/8] IB/core: Export vendor specific structures Leon Romanovsky
2016-09-18 10:50 ` [PATCH rdma-next V1 8/8] MAINTAINERS: Update RDMA vendor specific UAPI files Leon Romanovsky
2016-09-20 17:32 ` Adit Ranadive [this message]
[not found] ` <0b8136eb-d9da-5543-8622-482afe92e5fa-pghWNbHTmq7QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-20 22:38 ` [PATCH rdma-next V1 0/8] Export vendors specific ABIs Jason Gunthorpe
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