[openib-general] [PATCH] RFC: start weaning userspace drivers from sysfs

[Roland Dreier]

    Bryan> Is the goal of this to make sure that new hardware-specific
    Bryan> libraries will work with old libibverbs?  How likely do you
    Bryan> think that is to happen?  I don't see much of a problem
    Bryan> with simply breaking backwards compatibility here, since it
    Bryan> seems unlikely that someone would update one, but not the
    Bryan> other.

I just want to decouple things as much as possible, so there doesn't
have to be a flag day cut over from the new world to the old.  This
way we can get low-level drivers out everywhere and then change libibverbs.

 - R.