# Re: \[PATCH v3 00/16\] add Intel X722 iWARP driver

- From: David Miller \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-01-21 19:21:39 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2016/01/11007833
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-rdma/2016/01/11007833/t.md

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From: Or Gerlitz <redacted>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:40:53 +0200

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Faisal Latif [ref] wrote:
> 
>> We can certainly take up the discussion on improving the current port mapper design/implementation. But
>> that would be more appropriate in a separate thread.
> 
> If we observe a kernel API / mechanism which could be wrongly
> duplicated between two drivers, and now a new driver comes to town
> with C&P-ing this -- why not stopping and thinking before rushing to
> get the 3rd duplication upstream?

Yes, this really looks like a huge disaster.

People have to stop doing unique APIs in their drivers, especially
when equivalent functionality exists generically.
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