On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 12:38:00AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 12:01 AM Leon Romanovsky leon@kernel.org wrote: [..]
All stated above is my opinion, it can be different from yours.
Yes, but we need to converge to move this forward. Jason was involved in the current organization for registration, Greg was angling for this to be core functionality. I have use cases outside of RDMA and netdev. Parav was ok with the current organization. The SOF folks already have a proposed incorporation of it. The argument I am hearing is that "this registration api seems hard for driver writers" when we have several driver writers who have already taken a look and can make it work. If you want to follow on with a simpler wrappers for your use case, great, but I do not yet see anyone concurring with your opinion that the current organization is irretrievably broken or too obscure to use.
That's kind of because I tuned out of this thread a long time ago :)
I do agree with Leon that I think the current patch is not the correct way to do this the easiest, but don't have a competing proposal to show what I mean.
Yet.
Let's see what happens after 5.10-rc1 is out, it's too late now for any of this for this next merge window so we can not worry about it for a few weeks.
thanks,
greg k-h