From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Dave Dillow <dillowda@ornl.gov>
Cc: Amar Mudrankit <amar.mudrankit@qlogic.com>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
general@lists.openfabrics.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
poornima.kamath@qlogic.com
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH v3 08/13] QLogic VNIC: sysfs interface implementation for the driver
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:38:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adazlpzzvjn.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080605054035.GA8059@ornl.gov> (Dave Dillow's message of "Thu, 5 Jun 2008 01:40:35 -0400")
> That said, given that SRP's been using sysfs since it went in, is there
> a reason to move to configfs other than it's the new preferred way to do
> it? Given the desire to not break ABI's -- and IIRC sysfs was declared to
> be under that unbrella -- wouldn't we have to at least carry both
> interfaces for a while, assuming we can even get rid of the sysfs one?
Yes, we'd definitely be carrying both interfaces for at least a year.
Looking further into this, I'm not sure it makes much sense either.
Another problem with configfs is that the lifetime of the object is
controlled by userspace. So if we lose a connection to a target,
the object will persist in configfs until userspace notices.
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-05 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-29 9:53 [PATCH v3 00/13] QLogic VNIC Driver Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:54 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 01/13] QLogic VNIC: Driver - netdev implementation Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 17:27 ` [ofa-general] " Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 12:14 ` Ramachandra K
2008-06-03 17:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-29 9:54 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 02/13] QLogic VNIC: Netpath - abstraction of connection to EVIC/VEx Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:55 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 03/13] QLogic VNIC: Implementation of communication protocol with EVIC/VEx Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:55 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 04/13] QLogic VNIC: Implementation of Control path of communication protocol Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:56 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 05/13] QLogic VNIC: Implementation of Data " Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:56 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 06/13] QLogic VNIC: IB core stack interaction Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:57 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 07/13] QLogic VNIC: Handling configurable parameters of the driver Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:57 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 08/13] QLogic VNIC: sysfs interface implementation for " Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 17:30 ` [ofa-general] " Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-29 17:48 ` Greg KH
2008-06-01 5:46 ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-03 12:24 ` [ofa-general] " Ramachandra K
2008-06-03 15:10 ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-03 18:25 ` Amar Mudrankit
2008-06-03 18:30 ` Greg KH
2008-06-03 18:45 ` David Dillow
2008-06-05 4:10 ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-05 5:40 ` Dave Dillow
2008-06-05 16:38 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2008-06-05 17:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-05 17:32 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-05 20:47 ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-05 22:54 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-05 17:54 ` David Dillow
2008-05-29 9:58 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 09/13] QLogic VNIC: IB Multicast for Ethernet broadcast/multicast Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:58 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 10/13] QLogic VNIC: Driver Statistics collection Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:59 ` [PATCH v3 11/13] QLogic VNIC: Driver utility file - implements various utility macros Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:59 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 12/13] QLogic VNIC: Driver Kconfig and Makefile Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 10:00 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 13/13] QLogic VNIC: Modifications to IB " Ramachandra K
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