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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at pathscale.com>:
> > 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