From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752214AbcEQFjB (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2016 01:39:01 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:38770 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751840AbcEQFjA (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2016 01:39:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 07:38:52 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Doug Ledford , Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs Message-ID: <20160517053852.GA25133@lst.de> References: <743399f9-10b7-6e62-2bf4-6a8656df8a55@redhat.com> <20160516114926.GA681@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Linus, we're not talking about a driver here - we're talking about a new API lifted from a driver to generic code because it's commonly useful. It's also in entirely new files and not a modification of existing code, and it's always been clear how it is. Some of the code has been in since Linux 4.5 with a properly clear copyright. I really don't understand Doug's objection, and as said if they have a weird problem with it we can simply move it to a separate module.