From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: [PULL REQUEST] Please pull rdma.git Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 07:51:57 +0300 Message-ID: <20160527045157.GW25500@leon.nu> References: <166c87fa-09ef-f170-7351-d18062bc25cf@redhat.com> Reply-To: leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yPlaimQd/TpiYx8R" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <166c87fa-09ef-f170-7351-d18062bc25cf-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Doug Ledford Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-rdma List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --yPlaimQd/TpiYx8R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 06:34:28PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > Hi Linus, >=20 > This is the second group of code for the 4.7 merge window. It looks > large, but only in one sense. I'll get to that in a minute. The list > of changes here breaks down as follows: >=20 > Round two of 4.7 merge window patches >=20 <...> > - The big item on the list: hfi1 driver updates, plus moving the hfi1 > driver out of staging <- everything else Hi Doug and Linus, The move hfi1 from the staging is a right thing, it was there a long time and it is almost ready. However the timing of this move puzzle me, we are in the process of ABI change [1, 2] as a response to security alert [3]. Moves like this with proprietary char device and ABI scheme different from whole RDMA stack will limit the ABI work without real need. Will this driver be **forced** to adjust to new ABI scheme whenever it comes? If it is not possible, the better solution to converge on ABI change= will be to leave this driver in staging/rdma and wait till proper solution will be = accepted. Thanks. [1] http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-rdma&m=3D146407111911544&w=3D2 [2] http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-rdma&m=3D146410054120206&w=3D2 [3] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dledford/rdma.git/commit/?= id=3De6bd18f57aad1a2d1ef40e646d03ed0f2515c9e3 --yPlaimQd/TpiYx8R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXR9JtAAoJEORje4g2clinQAUP/37/aFQcu0iWgOdPRWyHG8de tFO2Kb/43z3Vrp6R+AhMzsF6ozml4PqtgewbAWy+U3AV3f6jLAZPbSB4kar/W+3C xhjupCFrpnq6x4dOU96RO2GECXS0QmsoXQueiOOxz+j3NOH/MPRaqj/cyXTIplo0 yY1uQy3LF4PYn+uDtc6BxB/BXhfdWJ7pRXD5qBGGN4OxTmVYjBO4xWhgTk37D45/ nEUfEQe1oKx0HnTpnVAb+DevERPcgWsBkULNMbQX3a67vEwU4O0jf/A+ArYp0n0A t5S2Ssx+xS5yGIhGTQfntGTtNxF/E10Oqug3IikW3r4wGihd9iQLpAsXKo0a/8F9 Pl0thm7vnY60AasT4uW6h8zlabZ6bRvGy37HaO5OdCyjAF7YrDkguqYtLlRqcuSm 5W8rs1ouhl2jSqAZQ5IEE1XvAcNYlyFV+6Xyu7UwdMu2u5xagg2l8bQuFQC2ki2c gJhAge59Aufv8pseb9w+Pxvlkm+kAuufYYhkqXxxT/BjwBOKB4o2I7/SxcsR78QM 95SyMoXFnyR8qIx2IpkG/7tl74WSaLlndCA4o/48DSTgC7zCjFGjklVppGWTYYYe 51MJApQsYM4C2eAn2VAIwC1jgzPOlhPW3894cPXOMeCULxWfjcjLSGNRJnucJ4gi FtRFvBnZVqlvr71IQx8d =S7n/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yPlaimQd/TpiYx8R-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html