From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: vendor extension moratorium? Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:02:07 +0200 Message-ID: <20160217100207.GB30450@leon.nu> References: <20160217085508.GA3578@infradead.org> Reply-To: leon-2ukJVAZIZ/Y@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160217085508.GA3578-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Or Gerlitz List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:55:08AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > While doing heavy lifting in the RDMA stack I keep running into > badly designed vendor extensions over and over. > > Is there any support for requiring that we'll only add features that > actually are peer reviewed and standardized before keeping on piling > up crap? It seems like at least vendors seems to be fighting for death > by features unfortunately. Your description of current state is pretty accurate, except one thing - there are a lot of actively used code in user space with real consumers which eager to get new features. Do you have any suggestions on how to handle the adding and exporting of new IB features? > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in > the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html