From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
To: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Cc: dledford@redhat.com, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] IB/hfi1: Remove write() and use ioctl() for user access
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:23:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160426152318.GE24104@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160422183844.GB21996@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com>
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 02:38:45PM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> >Stuff like this should be a build bug:
> >/* NOTE: assumes unsigned long is 8 bytes */
>
> Our Kconfig depends on X86_64. Should we add a BUILD_BUG_ON or something?
Yes
> as we can maintain the same functionality, which seems doable. It's just
> that no one has spoken up about these things in the 9+ months since the
> driver was added. We need a bit of time to get it all sorted out.
Unfortunately this is a bit of a flaw with the staging process, really
it is not designed to handle uAPI work.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-26 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-14 15:41 Dennis Dalessandro
2016-04-14 15:41 ` [PATCH 1/7] IB/hfi1: Export drivers user sw version via sysfs Dennis Dalessandro
2016-04-18 13:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-14 15:41 ` [PATCH 2/7] IB/hfi1: Remove unused user command Dennis Dalessandro
2016-04-18 13:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-14 15:41 ` [PATCH 3/7] IB/hfi1: Add ioctl() interface for user commands Dennis Dalessandro
2016-04-14 15:41 ` [PATCH 4/7] IB/hfi1: Remove write(), use ioctl() for user cmds Dennis Dalessandro
2016-04-14 15:42 ` [PATCH 5/7] IB/hfi1: Add trace message in user IOCTL handling Dennis Dalessandro
2016-04-14 15:42 ` [PATCH 6/7] IB/hfi1: Consolidate IOCTL defines Dennis Dalessandro
2016-04-14 15:42 ` [PATCH 7/7] IB/hfi1: Move eprom to its own device Dennis Dalessandro
2016-04-14 16:45 ` [PATCH 0/7] IB/hfi1: Remove write() and use ioctl() for user access Jason Gunthorpe
2016-04-14 17:48 ` Ira Weiny
2016-04-14 18:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-04-14 18:42 ` Dennis Dalessandro
2016-04-14 18:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-04-15 4:01 ` Leon Romanovsky
2016-04-15 16:17 ` Ira Weiny
2016-04-15 17:30 ` Leon Romanovsky
2016-04-15 17:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-15 17:44 ` Woodruff, Robert J
2016-04-15 21:03 ` Leon Romanovsky
2016-04-15 17:46 ` Hefty, Sean
2016-04-15 21:23 ` Leon Romanovsky
2016-04-15 23:28 ` Ira Weiny
2016-04-16 6:09 ` Leon Romanovsky
2016-04-16 15:29 ` Dennis Dalessandro
2016-04-15 23:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-04-16 6:00 ` Leon Romanovsky
2016-04-16 19:19 ` Al Viro
2016-04-18 12:00 ` Dennis Dalessandro
2016-04-14 17:52 ` Dennis Dalessandro
2016-04-14 18:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-04-20 20:36 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-04-22 18:38 ` Dennis Dalessandro
2016-04-26 15:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2016-04-18 13:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-18 17:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-04-18 18:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-19 3:45 ` Ira Weiny
2016-04-19 18:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-19 17:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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