Re: [RFC iproute2 0/8] RDMA tool

Jiri Benc
2017-05-05T06:54:57Z

On Thu, 4 May 2017 21:02:08 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> In order to close object model, ensure reuse of existing code and make this
> tool usable from day one, we decided to implement wrappers over legacy sysfs
> prior to implementing netlink functionality. As a nice bonus, it will allow
> to use this tool with old kernels too.

This sounds wrong. We don't support legacy ioctl interface for the 'ip'
command, either. I think rdma should be converted to netlink first and
the new tool should only use netlink.

Jiri
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