Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751363AbWCJQgQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:36:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751424AbWCJQgQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:36:16 -0500 Received: from mx.pathscale.com ([64.160.42.68]:48083 "EHLO mx.pathscale.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751488AbWCJQgP (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:36:15 -0500 Subject: Re: Revenge of the sysfs maintainer! (was Re: [PATCH 8 of 20] ipath - sysfs support for core driver) From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Greg KH , Roland Dreier , rolandd@cisco.com, akpm@osdl.org, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org In-Reply-To: <1142007892.2876.66.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <1141947143.10693.40.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> <20060310003513.GA17050@suse.de> <1141951589.10693.84.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> <20060310010050.GA9945@suse.de> <1141966693.14517.20.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> <1141977431.2876.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1141998702.28926.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1141999569.2876.47.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1142006121.29925.5.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> <1142007892.2876.66.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: PathScale, Inc. Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:36:14 -0800 Message-Id: <1142008574.29925.21.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 630 Lines: 17 On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 17:24 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > well shipping one .ko or two .ko's... same difference. Or maybe in your > case it's a 4->5 transition. No Difference from a user point of view. I think you misunderstand. The goal is for *us* to ship *none* :-) Anyway, I think we have a few different possible workable solutions that are not netlink, so I'm happy.