From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: [RFC] Proposal to address hfi1 UI and EPROM devices Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 19:24:57 +0300 Message-ID: <20160503162457.GB29160@leon.nu> References: <20160502195502.GA31800@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com> Reply-To: leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cvVnyQ+4j833TQvp" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160502195502.GA31800-W4f6Xiosr+yv7QzWx2u06xL4W9x8LtSr@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Dennis Dalessandro Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, jgunthorpe-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org, mike.marciniszyn-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, ira.weiny-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, dean.luick-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, mitko.haralanov-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, jubin.john-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --cvVnyQ+4j833TQvp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 03:55:02PM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote: > We also should be able to use any of these schemes to handle our eprom > reading/writing. Adding eprom to IPoIB as Doug suggested is a fine plan, = but > we technically don't need to do it right now when we could make do with t= he > "UI" functionality and hide the details in user space. In the future there > may well be value in having an eprom capability in the rdma sub-system, b= ut > for now we believe we can avoid extending the kernel in this regard. Just to understand better your RFC. Are you asking from the community excuse do not implement core functionality just because you don't need it? Am I right? Thanks >=20 > -Denny >=20 > -- > 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 --cvVnyQ+4j833TQvp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXKNDZAAoJEORje4g2clinbQEQALeD1A8eFFrv6S5Rm7gLZylj aLhBXY2e4Lerzmm6vAGm2mN/yoyWCUbkB5oGaeOUtG+BkrLaV/1droYoW3ilKszo a/tHPzoUfa6ALJNcSoECFKANmUHMcybNBHUiCouhJpWfC5JOjc3FlH3QiAdzPaF5 aS5jPHNUJo5/Ud09mnOYJzJy9HrIFY+BX2aTQ+ypsaY49RbIQuvVGvXGmAOhtBob jrWZ5GIEMg+UCHSmDn6k5XnL+/jjTTev0dPPhbd9QE1hLmfeeoXGzALjWTC86BJT 7BXRY+ma+MGU2LNKsV646yHQPCANptLvtc2mC/PvdixfPa6eLiSRxR4GL7cupHSZ /aftFejQaB5kX3JfaaZAw54EtlAr5h8fuDco2sRfq/mjAHzJB+Yub4Mt6Us7M54B VqTvE1LxadVtGBedRO0T7uqcMalfgTsI3G++oYN/LiFKlvMtfIRavoaWHZ6EpMZq GhOvygiazwSs+PEgUsRYaLQISFr9zCD71zfAGj4f2JaoTyabiByafp0YXNJiYsxO 2D86pGh58GSKGarKuZPW9n+N2U8q22++tc2BaUwzVW1wA7lN10dG25u0+e4Unp1T VWIDa3Ge2Wl959Nh/w0MGwfWJdKqsDJrj+fR9nYAXSyiFVN0czPaPsK5aBHD/AIe PjtSPNQcShaAq5T6QlGH =ApTj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cvVnyQ+4j833TQvp-- -- 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