Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756950AbbDWJgP (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2015 05:36:15 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f48.google.com ([74.125.82.48]:33488 "EHLO mail-wg0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754032AbbDWJgL (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2015 05:36:11 -0400 Message-ID: <5538BD03.6010403@profitbricks.com> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:36:03 +0200 From: Michael Wang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "ira.weiny" , Doug Ledford CC: Liran Liss , Roland Dreier , Sean Hefty , Hal Rosenstock , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "hal@dev.mellanox.co.il" , Tom Tucker , Steve Wise , Hoang-Nam Nguyen , "raisch@de.ibm.com" , Mike Marciniszyn , Eli Cohen , Faisal Latif , Jack Morgenstein , Or Gerlitz , Haggai Eran , Tom Talpey , Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/27] IB/Verbs: IB Management Helpers References: <5534B8C9.506@profitbricks.com> <1429714792.45956.110.camel@redhat.com> <20150422171051.GE1494@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20150422171051.GE1494@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1448 Lines: 47 On 04/22/2015 07:10 PM, ira.weiny wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:59:52AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: >> On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 23:36 +0000, Liran Liss wrote: > > [snip] > >>> >>> 2)The name rdma_tech_* is lame. >>> rdma_transport_*(), adhering to the above (*) remark, is much better. >>> For example, both IB and ROCE *do* use the same transport. >> >> I especially want to second this. I haven't really been happy with the >> rdma_tech_* names at all. >> > > I am sure Michael is open to alternative names. I know I am. The problem is > that we can't figure out what "IBoE" is. It is not a transport, even though > query_transport is now returning it as one. :-P Exactly :-P > > I think the idea behind the "tech" name was that it is a technology "family". > I can't think of a better name. IMHO a single patch to change the name and collecting all the discussion in that thread would be better. The discussion in this thread already starting to be scattered, like discussion on bitmask would be better in a thread dedicated on that purpose, otherwise we have to collect all these scattered discussions again when the bitmask series come out... Regards, Michael Wang > > Ira > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/