From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/6] Refactor RDMA IOCTL declarations Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:28:08 +0300 Message-ID: <20160818112808.GD7047@leon.nu> References: <1471355123-6227-1-git-send-email-leon@kernel.org> <20160818110819.GB8590@yuval-lap.uk.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Hf61M2y+wYpnELGG" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160818110819.GB8590-Hxa29pjIrETlQW142y8m19+IiqhCXseY@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Yuval Shaia Cc: dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --Hf61M2y+wYpnELGG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 02:08:20PM +0300, Yuval Shaia wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 04:45:17PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > Hi Doug, > >=20 > > This patch set refactors RDMA IOCTL declarations, unifies their > > location, moves all current IOCTL exporters to one place and renames > > them to fix the differences in coding style. > >=20 > > IOCTLs commands need to export the size of their data for their transfer > > which is usually declared as a struct defined in relevant submodule. > > These structures should be visible at the linkage stage. >=20 > Just for my understanding - this is not an issue only with RDMA-IOCTLs, > right? > (Wondering how other modules approaches this). I'm not familiar with all subsystems, but IMHO, we will find all possible solutions. While working on the patches, I took a look on other subsystems and they exposed structures in the same file as IOCTLs from the day one. --Hf61M2y+wYpnELGG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXtZvIAAoJEORje4g2clinv54QALroVTr6dBW9qB7Um/v6hsHz /G2NFLNk/OqmqdF40hHtcxszU53Kf8aK7/TCnmGF0Z1TVQPH+6v0Y7iMWp5VJ6mD NclJ+RMsO4y15kROy2uBoKk/oC3mjOwvuPMoMGtk7tDKfdmpvo+wL6BEKv6nMr6H AlMActPfyTY2tE8WO4BpzTMr9LjYs1ZiWNjstP3b5v3dcA8QUxJv7qVAhHh81Mtz ZC2OmoDMusnwBDa+9Sbw3CVC00hGiwEaGkWleIJLwv0r5kXr/hNHK97fZL6qMOAO qB4I6nl+3XiplOIupU+wP2rml1rwAFDfDtpAQzZwGSrUtScLwZxiQC+l1nVUNGl3 AKSxnM+UYNPdMsQGvnrezYuxgwnDi1xXzAaN+p3pqKqEACNtU7Lc/KnO1iQwYaGD cMeuBOgGqs3K8u42vzQ65yB6LvXntNpmTg2LsPuRnNHLcAY9QCvUBdOE2znwuAz3 Lb3tH5M3KH48MC2Wr1Kmj3jphrVBX63j08T9mR5xEK42yryBvBzXwFpZeGe5yylA FZWEEg5dAFV13S1aiIWiX/k/jMMFNshRPu2IShFtlKLLbhrNRqSPQM9IAsD+A/Ih QME0Jq0faxATfgFrlfZfrh1RCLf7TMBh+z78HOyph5lEQCTjmvJOlH2wkL36tgbS +6pjxdLI2PuS4ha3247F =5DI2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Hf61M2y+wYpnELGG-- -- 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