From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ogerlitz@mellanox.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, hadarh@dev.mellanox.co.il,
amirv@mellanox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, hadarh@mellanox.com,
yevgenyp@mellanox.com, talal@mellanox.com,
shannon.nelson@intel.com, dledford@redhat.com,
greearb@candelatech.com, gregory.v.rose@intel.com,
jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com,
john.ronciak@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V1 0/3] net/mlx4_core: Allow setting init-time device specific parameters
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:09:42 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150312.140942.100203943937808252.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5501803D.8020101@mellanox.com>
From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:02:05 +0200
> So.. M2-- reading Dave's words I understand that he's against textual
> interfacessuch as configfs and prefers others. This brings two
> questions to the table (1) do we need to deprecate these textual
> interfaces / configfs and avoid using them for configuration purposes
> with new code? (2) does programmable interface such as netlink is the
> way to go for our purposes here (and elsewhere)?
Do not try to hijack a discussion about what interfaces you should be
using for your use case into a discussion about deprecating configfs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-12 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-11 9:08 [PATCH net-next V1 0/3] net/mlx4_core: Allow setting init-time device specific parameters Amir Vadai
2015-03-11 9:08 ` [PATCH net-next V1 1/3] net/mlx4_core: Add configfs entries for setting " Amir Vadai
2015-03-11 9:08 ` [PATCH net-next V1 2/3] net/mlx4_core: Set port_type value according to configfs configuration Amir Vadai
2015-03-11 9:08 ` [PATCH net-next V1 3/3] net/mlx4_core: Set DMFS mode " Amir Vadai
2015-03-11 17:14 ` [PATCH net-next V1 0/3] net/mlx4_core: Allow setting init-time device specific parameters David Miller
2015-03-12 8:07 ` Hadar Hen Zion
2015-03-12 9:00 ` Greg KH
2015-03-12 12:02 ` Or Gerlitz
2015-03-12 13:46 ` Greg KH
2015-03-12 18:09 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-03-12 18:05 ` David Miller
2015-03-12 18:59 ` Hadar Hen Zion
2015-03-12 19:31 ` David Miller
2015-03-12 20:51 ` Or Gerlitz
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