[openib-general] Re: Plans for libibverbs 1.0, 1.1 and beyond

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: Plans for libibverbs 1.0, 1.1 and beyond
> 
>     Roland> * Eliminate the dependency on libsysfs by implementing the
>     Roland> required sysfs handling directly.
> 
>     Robert> Any particular reason why, other than just minimizing
>     Robert> external dependencies?
> 
> libsysfs is unmaintained, and the main user of it (udev) has stopped
> using it.  So it's going to bitrot and get dropped from distros.  And
> libsysfs kind of sucks too.

Right. And the stuff we use it pretty trivial too.

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Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies