From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chien Tin Tung Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next V1 1/5] RDMA/netlink: Remove netlink clients infrastructure Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 13:34:21 -0500 Message-ID: <20170612183421.GA12152@ctung-MOBL3.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <20170611083931.13686-1-leon@kernel.org> <20170611083931.13686-2-leon@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170611083931.13686-2-leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Doug Ledford , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Bart Van Assche , Leon Romanovsky List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:39:27AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > From: Leon Romanovsky > > RDMA netlink has complicated infrastructure to add and remove netlink > clients to NETLINK_RDMA family. This complicates the code and not in > use because not many clients are available (3 clients) and most of them > (2 clients) are statically compiled together with netlink.c. > > The following patch refactors RDMA netlink and opens door for the future > patches which will be able to get rid of a lot of dead iwcm* code. With portmapper functionality moving from individual drivers into iw_cm, this code can be simplified as you have done here. There is no need for a client list, the array will suffice. Reviewed-by: Chien Tin Tung -- 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