Re: HFI1 code duplication todo

2015-11-21 Thread ira.weiny
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 01:25:23AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:41:16AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > > So, as to the hfi1/qib/rxe transport library. The qib driver is in the > > rdma tree, and we aren't going to move it to staging just because it > > depends on

Re: HFI1 code duplication todo

2015-11-20 Thread Dan Carpenter
At the beginning when hfi1 was put into staging, then it was easy enough for Greg to take those patches but now it feels awkward. Probably Doug and the linux-r...@vger.kernel.org people should start maintaining the drivers/staging/rdma directory. Like merge Greg's tree and pull in whatever

Re: HFI1 code duplication todo

2015-11-20 Thread Doug Ledford
On 11/20/2015 11:39 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:41:16AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: >> To that end, I've opened my 4.4-rc branch and deleted the three >> deprecated drivers from staging and moved hfi1 to the rdma tree. I've >> sent an email to Linus to see if he's ok taking

RE: HFI1 code duplication todo

2015-11-20 Thread Marciniszyn, Mike
> > To that end, I've opened my 4.4-rc branch and deleted the three deprecated > drivers from staging and moved hfi1 to the rdma tree. I've sent an email to > Linus to see if he's ok taking those changes, and if so, I'll get them > submitted > and then open up my for-4.5 branch early to be able

Re: HFI1 code duplication todo

2015-11-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Doug, before the drivers stops overloading writev vs write (hfi1_file_ops) it MUST not be moved to the main tree. ___ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel

Re: HFI1 code duplication todo

2015-11-20 Thread Doug Ledford
On 11/19/2015 05:23 PM, Dennis Dalessandro wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 04:13:18PM -0500, Dennis Dalessandro wrote: >> The major todo for the hfi1 driver in staging is getting rid of the >> verbs code duplication between ipath, qib, and now hfi1. The ipath >> driver has been deprecated and is

Re: HFI1 code duplication todo

2015-11-20 Thread ira.weiny
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:41:16AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > On 11/19/2015 05:23 PM, Dennis Dalessandro wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 04:13:18PM -0500, Dennis Dalessandro wrote: > >> The major todo for the hfi1 driver in staging is getting rid of the > >> verbs code duplication between

Re: HFI1 code duplication todo

2015-11-20 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:41:16AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > To that end, I've opened my 4.4-rc branch and deleted the three > deprecated drivers from staging and moved hfi1 to the rdma tree. I've > sent an email to Linus to see if he's ok taking those changes, and if > so, I'll get them

Re: HFI1 code duplication todo

2015-11-20 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:58:18AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > On 11/20/2015 11:39 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:41:16AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > >> To that end, I've opened my 4.4-rc branch and deleted the three > >> deprecated drivers from staging and moved hfi1 to the

Re: HFI1 code duplication todo

2015-11-20 Thread Doug Ledford
On 11/20/2015 12:13 PM, Greg KH wrote: >>> I think it's too late for that, especially given that I have 34+ patches >>> for the staging rdma drivers already in my tree in linux-next. >> >> For hfi1 rename detection should work, for the other three, patches to >> removed files are easily resolved

Re: HFI1 code duplication todo

2015-11-20 Thread Dan Carpenter
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:41:16AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > So, as to the hfi1/qib/rxe transport library. The qib driver is in the > rdma tree, and we aren't going to move it to staging just because it > depends on something in staging, so we need to start adding the library > in the core

Re: HFI1 code duplication todo

2015-11-19 Thread Dennis Dalessandro
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 04:13:18PM -0500, Dennis Dalessandro wrote: The major todo for the hfi1 driver in staging is getting rid of the verbs code duplication between ipath, qib, and now hfi1. The ipath driver has been deprecated and is going to be deleted soon. So that leaves qib and hfi. To

HFI1 code duplication todo

2015-11-12 Thread Dennis Dalessandro
The major todo for the hfi1 driver in staging is getting rid of the verbs code duplication between ipath, qib, and now hfi1. The ipath driver has been deprecated and is going to be deleted soon. So that leaves qib and hfi. To address this we have proposed rdmavt which will be a common kmod that