From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/16] IB uverbs: core implementation
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:03:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050629180313.GC25066@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52slz1drlq.fsf@topspin.com>
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:01:53AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Greg> This is no longer needed with the class device interface in
> Greg> the kernel today. Please use the new api (basically just
> Greg> set dev_t in the class_device, and you get this for free.)
>
> Here's a patch that applies on top of this patch set that fixes this:
>
>
> Greg KH pointed out that with the new class device code, we can just
> set class_dev.devt instead of having our own show_dev() function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Nice, thanks for doing this. You also get better userspace support as
now the MAJOR and MINOR environment variables are set for the hotplug
event when you create this device.
Which, if Kay is correct, will make udev even faster...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-29 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-28 23:03 [PATCH 00/16] Add InfiniBand userspace verbs (direct userspace access) Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 01/16] IB uverbs: core API extensions Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 02/16] IB uverbs: update kernel midlayer for new API Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 03/16] IB uverbs: update mthca " Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 04/16] IB uverbs: add user verbs ABI header Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 05/16] IB uverbs: core implementation Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 06/16] IB uverbs: memory pinning implementation Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 07/16] IB uverbs: hook up Kconfig/Makefile Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 08/16] IB uverbs: add mthca ABI header Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 09/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user doorbell record support Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 10/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user context support Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 11/16] IB uverbs: add mthca mmap support Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 12/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user PD support Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 13/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user MR support Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 14/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user CQ support Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 15/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user QP support Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 16/16] IB uverbs: add documentation file Roland Dreier
2005-06-29 0:10 ` [PATCH 14/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user CQ support Andrew Morton
2005-06-29 16:06 ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-29 0:07 ` [PATCH 12/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user PD support Andrew Morton
2005-06-29 16:06 ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-29 0:05 ` [PATCH 11/16] IB uverbs: add mthca mmap support Andrew Morton
2005-06-29 16:06 ` Roland Dreier
2005-07-05 19:20 ` Roland Dreier
2005-07-05 20:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-07-05 22:07 ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-29 0:02 ` [PATCH 06/16] IB uverbs: memory pinning implementation Andrew Morton
2005-06-29 16:06 ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-29 0:27 ` [PATCH 05/16] IB uverbs: core implementation Greg KH
2005-06-29 1:38 ` [openib-general] " Tom Duffy
2005-06-29 4:13 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2005-06-29 16:12 ` Greg KH
2005-06-29 16:32 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2005-06-29 16:06 ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-29 17:01 ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-29 18:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-06-30 3:13 ` [openib-general] " Ronald G. Minnich
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