Re: [RFC rdma-next 0/3] Move mlx5 vendor specific to UAPI directory

[Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:21:45AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 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 :|

Are we fine with the names (include/uapi/rdma/providers/*-abi.h)?

>
> > 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.

At the end, I will do one patch per-driver and one global patch for
MAINTAINERS file.

>
> Jason

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