[openib-general] Re: FW: summary of my understanding on our common work on openib.org

[Johannes Erdfelt]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005, Grant Grundler <iod00d at hp.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:39:41PM -0800, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> > The kernel code should be lean and unless there is an immediate or short
> > term use for a feature, it probably shouldn't be there. We should be
> > asking "why keep it in the code?", not "why should we remove it from
> > the code?"
> 
> enums and typedefs are a (weak) form of documentation.
> If people don't know the feature exists they won't know to look for it
> in better forms of documentation that are privately available.

Good point, that makes sense too.

> I'm generalizing since I have NFC what this attribute does specifically.
> If someone publicly can say "Don't use this because..." then that would
> be a good reason to remove the declaration too.

It sounds like Mellanox doesn't want to support it and it's nonstandard
anyway.

JE