[openib-general] Plans for libibverbs 1.0, 1.1 and beyond

[Roland Dreier]

    Roland> * Eliminate the dependency on libsysfs by implementing the
    Roland> required sysfs handling directly.

    Robert> Any particular reason why, other than just minimizing
    Robert> external dependencies?

libsysfs is unmaintained, and the main user of it (udev) has stopped
using it.  So it's going to bitrot and get dropped from distros.  And
libsysfs kind of sucks too.

 - R.