From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965053AbWD0Nrh (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:47:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965056AbWD0Nrh (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:47:37 -0400 Received: from wohnheim.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.233.138]:35210 "EHLO wohnheim.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965053AbWD0Nrg (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:47:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:47:03 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Heiko J Schick , openib-general@openib.org, Christoph Raisch , Hoang-Nam Nguyen , Marcus Eder , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/16] ehca: firmware InfiniBand interface Message-ID: <20060427134703.GL32127@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <4450A1C0.3080209@de.ibm.com> <20060427123701.GG32127@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <84144f020604270642j788be2ecp82841ac3b3ebcaad@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <84144f020604270642j788be2ecp82841ac3b3ebcaad@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 27 April 2006 16:42:52 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On 4/27/06, Jörn Engel wrote: > > The whole patch is full of parameter-happy functions with this one > > being the ugly top of the iceberg. I sincerely hope this is not a > > defined ABI and can still be changed. > > It's not in mainline, so it can be changed. I was thinking more about firmware ABI. Jörn -- But this is not to say that the main benefit of Linux and other GPL software is lower-cost. Control is the main benefit--cost is secondary. -- Bruce Perens