Re: [RFC PATCH] RDMA/cma: Remove netlink interface of CMA statistics

Jason Gunthorpe
2017-11-13T19:24:32Z

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 04:40:24PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
>
> CMA statistics were exposed to users through netlink interface long time
> ago, but it wasn't exposed using netlink extensibility approach. The
> current implementation was based on struct and not attributes.
>
> Let's remove it, before anyone is actually start to use it and prevents us
> to write it properly.

You should describe why you think it is safe to remove a uAPI from the
kernel in the commit message.. When was it introduced? Why was a uAPI
added with no users??

Jason