Re: [PATCH V1 for-next 1/2] IB/core: Report LSO capabilities when querying device

[Christoph Lameter <cl-vYTEC60ixJUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, 6 May 2016, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> > > This is where I get upset with the process we are following here,
> > > without input from other hardware architects in other companies,
> > > it is hard to design something truly common.
> >
> > Presumably the other vendors are listening in on this conversation. The
> > lack of alternate proposals and objections by them has often been
> > considered silent approval in the past.
>
> I know the various hardware architects that would be involved with a
> IBTA process/etc do not monitor this list.

An IBTA process? How would that be relevant here?

> > On the other hand nothing is going to happen if one vendor does not push
> > ahead. There were multiple implementations in the IP stack as well until
> > things settled. We need to be able to do the same and not stifle
> > innovation by making a vendor to wait until the competition comes
> > up with something similar.
>
> Agreed.
>
> I'm just saying, do it in user space and leave the common kernel uAPI
> alone until a more obvious consensus is reached. That should speed
> everything up..

How would you do this in user space?

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