[ewg] FW: ib_reg_phys_mr() verb to be removed from Linux kernel

Isaac Huang he.huang at intel.com
Tue Jul 21 22:04:30 PDT 2015


http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.c#L2380

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:05:02PM -0400, Rupert Dance wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Could all of your teams review this request and get back to me.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Rupert
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Lever [mailto:chuck.lever at oracle.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 5:24 PM
> To: Rupert Dance
> Subject: ib_reg_phys_mr() verb to be removed from Linux kernel
> 
> Hi Rupert-
> 
> There's been a vigorous discussion of the IB verbs API in the Linux kernel
> recently on linux-rdma at vger.kernel.org.
> 
> One item that has come up is that folks would like to remove
> ib_reg_phys_mr() for kernel consumers because it is obsolete.
> 
> Are you aware of any out-of-tree kernel consumers who might still use this
> API?
> 
> --
> Chuck Lever
> 
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