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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 19:46:32 -0300
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] mlx5 ConnectX control misc driver
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 02:36:07PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

> > FWIW, I've been trying to push RDMA away from driver created sysfs for
> > a while now. Aside from the API complexity, implementations have
> > messed up using the sysfs APIs and resulted in some significant
> > problems :(
>
> Sure, agreed, but off-topic.

It is not - I don't want a huge amount of sysfs in drivers to replace
what fwctl will do for pretty solid technical reasons.

I do object, as snarky as I was, to you saying RDMA should take on a
whole bunch of read/write sysfs in drivers that netdev would not
accept as a "reasonable" direction.

Jason