[openib-general] Re: libibverbs and sysfsutils

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: libibverbs and sysfsutils
> 
>     Bryan> I'm kind of surprised that anything to do with sysfs would
>     Bryan> bleed out to either the API or ABI.
> 
> Right now the low-level drivers get passed a sysfs device during
> initialization.  And I don't think breaking libmthca, libehca and
> libipathverbs at this stage is an option.
> 
>  - R.

A device is just a sysfs directory, isnt it, so I guess we could just move this
to DIR * (plus possibly full path) without much pain.

-- 
Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies