Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932435AbWCWJjg (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:39:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932507AbWCWJjg (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:39:36 -0500 Received: from [194.90.237.34] ([194.90.237.34]:17040 "EHLO mtlexch01.mtl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932435AbWCWJjf (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:39:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:40:26 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rdreier@cisco.com, greg@kroah.com, openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 8 of 18] ipath - sysfs and ipathfs support for core driver Message-ID: <20060323094026.GC1802@mellanox.co.il> Reply-To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" References: <03375633b9c13068de17.1143072301@eng-12.pathscale.com> <20060323063049.GB9841@mellanox.co.il> <1143103569.6411.18.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1143103569.6411.18.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Mar 2006 09:42:19.0468 (UTC) FILETIME=[13EAB8C0:01C64E5E] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 685 Lines: 17 Quoting r. Bryan O'Sullivan : > > InfiniBand core already exposes these attributes to userspace, see > > drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c > > This is needed for cases where the Infiniband stack isn't present. But re-implementing same thing with a different kernel-user interface and pushing it into a low-level driver does not strike me like a sane solution. -- Michael S. Tsirkin Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies - 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/