[Ofvwg] [ANNOUNCE] Open Fabrics Verbs Working Group (OFVWG) meeting tomorrow - 9/13/2016 at 11:00PDT

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:13:49AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 05:30:59AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > I'm not fine with HFI exposing the non-verbs interfaces through
> > drivers/infiniband/core interface, which as far as I can tell it
> > currently does not even do, although some discussions here suggest
> > that a future interface should cater to those interface.
>
> The counter balance is that the Kernel Community has had a lot of bad
> experiences with drivers growing their own user APIs and 'subsystem'
> like functionality.

Do you see any desire of HFI authors to move to new general user API?

>
> Jason
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