From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@mellanox.com>, <yevgenyp@mellanox.com>,
Tal Alon <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 14:02:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5501803D.8020101@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150312090042.GB1092@kroah.com>
On 3/12/2015 11:00 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:07:35AM +0200, Hadar Hen Zion wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:14 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>>> From: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
>>> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:08:50 +0200
>>>
>>>> Also, customers are paying for a very sophisticated piece of hardware, and we would like to enable power user to tweak it in some situtations. Of course the default mode should be used in 99% of the use cases.
>>> How much money someone pays for your hardware has nothing to do with the standards by which we design userspace interfaces to configure these devices.
>>>
>>> These textual interfaces are arbitrary, and you are choosing it only because you cannot come up with a more reasonable scheme,
>>>
>>> I'm not applying these changes.
>>> ---
>> In previous conversations Greg suggested us to use configfs.
>>
>> Is this case a misuse of configfs? maybe configfs should be deprecated... Greg?
> No, this has nothing to do with the validity of configfs, please re-read what David said to you.
Greg,
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)?
Or.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-12 12:02 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 [this message]
2015-03-12 13:46 ` Greg KH
2015-03-12 18:09 ` David Miller
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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