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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [RFC rdma-next 0/3] Move mlx5 vendor specific to UAPI directory
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:21:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160914172145.GI16014@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1473841649-8923-1-git-send-email-leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:27:26AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> The consolidate library revealed the fact that vendor specific
> structures and defines are copy/pasted between kernel and user-space,
> instead of sharing.
> 
> This RFC was tested by compilation only and not-ready for merge yet.

Yah, this is exactly what I had in mind. We need to give this
treatment to all the drivers :|

> Leon Romanovsky (3):
>   IB/mlx5: Move and decouple user vendor structures
>   IB/core: Export mlx5 vendor specific strucutres
>   MAINTAINERS: Add mlx5 uapi file

One patch is probably enough, 3 patches per driver is going to be
alot.

Jason
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-14 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-14  8:27 [RFC rdma-next 0/3] Move mlx5 vendor specific to UAPI directory Leon Romanovsky
     [not found] ` <1473841649-8923-1-git-send-email-leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-14  8:27   ` [RFC rdma-next 1/3] IB/mlx5: Move and decouple user vendor structures Leon Romanovsky
2016-09-14  8:27   ` [RFC rdma-next 2/3] IB/core: Export mlx5 vendor specific strucutres Leon Romanovsky
     [not found]     ` <1473841649-8923-3-git-send-email-leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-15  6:13       ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]         ` <20160915061336.GA4869-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-15  6:25           ` Leon Romanovsky
2016-09-15 16:17           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-09-14  8:27   ` [RFC rdma-next 3/3] MAINTAINERS: Add mlx5 uapi file Leon Romanovsky
2016-09-14 17:21   ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
     [not found]     ` <20160914172145.GI16014-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-14 19:46       ` [RFC rdma-next 0/3] Move mlx5 vendor specific to UAPI directory Laurence Oberman
     [not found]         ` <1495514480.6044744.1473882367077.JavaMail.zimbra-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-15  5:06           ` Leon Romanovsky
2016-09-15  5:02       ` Leon Romanovsky

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