From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dennis Dalessandro Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] IB/hfi1: Remove write() and use ioctl() for user access Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:15:36 -0400 Message-ID: <20160418181535.GB7596@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com> References: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB041C34@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> <20160414212702.GA14137@obsidianresearch.com> <20160415000242.GA18400@rhel.sc.intel.com> <20160415044124.GA16805@obsidianresearch.com> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB0422AE@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> <20160415181811.GA22322@obsidianresearch.com> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB042530@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> <20160415220340.GB24204@obsidianresearch.com> <20160416162203.GA6279@rhel> <20160418175559.GC13865@obsidianresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160418175559.GC13865-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Ira Weiny , "Hefty, Sean" , "dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:55:59AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: >Basically, no maintainer would take a networking driver that doesn't >live in one of the networking subsystems. Drivers generally don't just >get to opt-out of the established common APIs. This is why is so >tasteless to propose a hfi1 eeprom cdev, for instance. Point taken on eprom cdev. We should be able to simply drop the last two patches of this series. We are also looking into Christoph's suggestion that the right place to plug in the eprom stuff is drivers/nvmem [1]. [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-rdma&m=146098495706509&w=2 -Denny -- 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