From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: [RFC] RESEND - rdmatool - tool for RDMA users Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 08:33:26 +0200 Message-ID: <20170119063326.GJ32481@mtr-leonro.local> References: <20170118173327.GF32481@mtr-leonro.local> <20170118183127.GC14198@obsidianresearch.com> <5f90fd26-e7bf-bb2a-01f2-6b166f2265e9@sandisk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cpgGT4jyFUyD7BZ9" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5f90fd26-e7bf-bb2a-01f2-6b166f2265e9-XdAiOPVOjttBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Bart Van Assche Cc: Jason Gunthorpe , Or Gerlitz , Ariel Almog , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Linux Netdev List List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --cpgGT4jyFUyD7BZ9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 01:45:14PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 01/18/2017 10:31 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > I think it depends on what this tool is supposed to cover, but based > > on the description, I would start with netlink-only. > > > > The only place verbs covers a similar ground is in 'device > > capabilities' - for some of that you might want to open a new-uAPI > > verbs fd, but even the capability data from that would not be > > totally offensive to be accessed over netlink. > > > > IMHO netlink should cover almost everything found in sysfs today. > > We would need a very strong argument to introduce a netlink API that > duplicates existing sysfs API functionality. Since the sysfs API is > extensible, why not extend that API further? E.g. the SCST sysfs API > shows that more is possible with sysfs than what most kernel drivers > realize. We didn't look deeply on sysfs mainly because it is unpopular in netdev community. Maybe we were misled and it is simply not true. > > Bart. > -- > 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 --cpgGT4jyFUyD7BZ9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEkhr/r4Op1/04yqaB5GN7iDZyWKcFAliAXbYACgkQ5GN7iDZy WKdVMg//VmBObdkGkBGsU/JabpK3FKZDJFLrSTs+83NSmEqeMQtO1RUFK08RD/v5 ZZAA/CGvtDpjE3Rr3uhP94c9vdQionj3KvsihGD6EJ7Krl4sX3eyULWp9OdQZNqO BSiKvyAoTMu0PtMMLK5TSqERynZHhLWSmADbczGN9U3YIWcQjrbL2KF2tnFLJIHa 74zA9WKWiZ7a7tG/2iKl+QeUrbHoT8Azlxw3Pt6y+gosxjyUVa9AmK5T1jtn3OcW yKTP3AD8mOAI9LToynu7yPnhkCzvkB4RHqEC7FUSjrbFayyp1r1qls7AtDKZWhc9 Ho4vCUMtuukloxHg2M1pIPNW76njiqN9M54WnN1660I7B+NXMXllkfHzlN6wFTbr MIH3pEd6A08vLREooawMdeyUAk/WeNPuGc7MKPcBJNEHvvFXmEFZ6TZX52wsjdZu WUdD8JiY+H0V15nXpYvWl2C/IrsIgkBnzXqWLkrrXePbWnH/b++ZoXj/wFw3MTyO JItLKNZR0qCRW3X1ZqzCpJzSNIzqVKZWUnXHrroPRrExUtAG2nFzXd7oiX0j5e6t oXdsF7P0KhZi94NWTVvqlqMQJPj+IzCANgIDcMWFFv2X5EvOD0vv0WmvnNgE0KwT kRobGRmlirNBXITNFY7Rr2HIGUQaWyzLemQZx37cL9oA2mxHCPw= =e7J4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cpgGT4jyFUyD7BZ9-- -- 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