From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Benc Subject: Re: [RFC iproute2 0/8] RDMA tool Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 08:54:57 +0200 Message-ID: <20170505085457.0029edc9@griffin> References: <20170504180216.7665-1-leon@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170504180216.7665-1-leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Doug Ledford , Leon Romanovsky , Jiri Pirko , Ariel Almog , Dennis Dalessandro , Ram Amrani , Bart Van Assche , Sagi Grimberg , Jason Gunthorpe , Christoph Hellwig , Or Gerlitz , Linux RDMA , Linux Netdev List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 4 May 2017 21:02:08 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > In order to close object model, ensure reuse of existing code and make this > tool usable from day one, we decided to implement wrappers over legacy sysfs > prior to implementing netlink functionality. As a nice bonus, it will allow > to use this tool with old kernels too. This sounds wrong. We don't support legacy ioctl interface for the 'ip' command, either. I think rdma should be converted to netlink first and the new tool should only use netlink. Jiri -- 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