Re: [ANNOUNCE] Open Fabrics Verbs Working Group (OFVWG) meeting tomorrow - 9/13/2016 at 11:00PDT

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:13:49AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 05:30:59AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

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I'm not fine with HFI exposing the non-verbs interfaces through
drivers/infiniband/core interface, which as far as I can tell it
currently does not even do, although some discussions here suggest
that a future interface should cater to those interface.

The counter balance is that the Kernel Community has had a lot of bad
experiences with drivers growing their own user APIs and 'subsystem'
like functionality.

Do you see any desire of HFI authors to move to new general user API?

Jason