Re: [PATCH 8 of 18] ipath - sysfs and ipathfs support for core driver

Quoting r. Bryan O'Sullivan <[email protected]>:
> > InfiniBand core already exposes these attributes to userspace, see
> > drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c
> 
> This is needed for cases where the Infiniband stack isn't present.

But re-implementing same thing with a different kernel-user interface and
pushing it into a low-level driver does not strike me like a sane solution.

-- 
Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies
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References:
- [PATCH 0 of 18] [RFC] ipath - almost-final round of patches for submission
  - From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <[email protected]>
- [PATCH 8 of 18] ipath - sysfs and ipathfs support for core driver
  - From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH 8 of 18] ipath - sysfs and ipathfs support for core driver
  - From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH 8 of 18] ipath - sysfs and ipathfs support for core driver
  - From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <[email protected]>

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