From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: [RFC ABI 0/8] Netlink-based IOCTLs RDMA ABI Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 11:16:46 +0300 Message-ID: <20160529081646.GA25500@leon.nu> References: <20160524214951.GC7950@obsidianresearch.com> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB05023F@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> <20160524223052.GI7950@obsidianresearch.com> <20160526172244.GC27115@obsidianresearch.com> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB05BB5D@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> <20160526233612.GA4396@obsidianresearch.com> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB05BC0C@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> <20160527131956.GY25500@leon.nu> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB05BD12@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.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="72pTQ1Q5L511SwPT" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB05BD12-P5GAC/sN6hkd3b2yrw5b5LfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Hefty, Sean" Cc: Jason Gunthorpe , Matan Barak , "dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --72pTQ1Q5L511SwPT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 03:04:00PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote: > > What do you mean by "the kernel client"? > >=20 > > Maybe you are referring for something else, but I think about driver's > > implementations of callbacks which will cause to code duplications. >=20 > I am referring to the creation of an ioctl handling framework that is sui= table for use by the rdma cm, ib cm (if kept), verb devices, and non-verbs = drivers that do not plug into the kernel verbs framework. The kernel clien= ts are the items I mentioned. Having a common ioctl handling framework wil= l maximize code reuse. It looks too generic for RDMA subsystem. What does it make this IOCTL frame= work specific to RDMA? >=20 > - Sean --72pTQ1Q5L511SwPT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXSqVuAAoJEORje4g2clinGfYQAL7cl5KGNckebJ5JIuqM+CJ2 GUtb+/my8PfB5sSop2pw9alt3seTDBnE8B6GrqI35AtW6/WZqQY5XV1NcbRxalNn kQbS2rnnt9fE+j5EbntGknqzK0wY1de/+ml05bjisk2fPsmO3AI4eHSDFLo1xdqk d6sLrUHnddCFAV2xHnorfxxwSQ+I7GcyGJnz69NSiWhz3mAkYUOvyn73aqobA8lC cAZcoBxz8xk2hNTPeSLulm+vxfPqx4gzmNju72UOXsooCC0krwd52JsoV3HGPuUb nWsVfsAPkH3iPNYpMdzV2nIhJSdl4h+RvW98G6l37wwUwxNXFj104YLUYOnBstP1 c6SUYcnZRTf31lAl7zgniVkGwUd4dPYjYlswdK/BBENcGERiVjSyHQ9jVDPPxAhX WqdR7Nnx1ZDe/nphPVhNSuJk/J8Pd3Zk6tZfsyj9C7gcZ2oSChfDphdPDdd++krK kTuS8CLZ+eBwCzSI5lYCrjBvZ1B2qfIgGt2WucJV799M55dXZV+UoKJ/XVmVsb0K 3YckzvjqkpdMAcEdpizwttX8oOkwhz9A/SSGlLU/nb0UBh2PA8V7cbChVAjBlPn3 PT1qXYT+Ox7msWZQ3pm+j+OtokbnrbOF4/GTEBAGXLcBfpmObEhB2bXlRTAjn7H+ E5coRQxUKPj5pQvmYBZY =g/zK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --72pTQ1Q5L511SwPT-- -- 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