[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] fix umad object lifetime stuff

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 12:51, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     >> Roland Dreier wrote: > Something like this is probably required
>     >> for ucm and anything else > that exports a character device,
>     >> since everyone seems to have copied > my bad user_mad code.
>     >> But I haven't had a chance to do anything > beyond user_mad and
>     >> uverbs so far...
> 
>     Hal> Should this be done for uat too or doesn't it matter ?
> 
> The bugs definitely exist in uat.  However, fixing things like passing
> kernel pointers to userspace would seem like a higher priority to me.
> 
> Or we could just deprecate uat in favor of Sean's work...

Isn't that in process as AT is being deprecated in favor of CMA ? That's
part of why I was asking: given that, are these issues needed to be
fixed in the short term ? (I would prefer not to unless this is really
needed by someone).

-- Hal