On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:29:27PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 10:33:02AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 09:59:53PM -0700, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: > > > On 12/1/2020 7:55 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > > > On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 13:48:36 -0700 Jeffrey Hugo wrote: > > > > > On 12/1/2020 1:03 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 12:40:50 -0700 Jeffrey Hugo wrote: > > > > > > > On 12/1/2020 12:29 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 19:26:02 -0800 Hemant Kumar wrote: > > > > > > > > > This patch series adds support for UCI driver. UCI driver > > > > > > > > > enables userspace > > > > > > > > > clients to communicate to external MHI devices like modem and > > > > > > > > > WLAN. UCI driver > > > > > > > > > probe creates standard character device file nodes for > > > > > > > > > userspace clients to > > > > > > > > > perform open, read, write, poll and release file operations. > > > > > > > > > These file > > > > > > > > > operations call MHI core layer APIs to perform data transfer > > > > > > > > > using MHI bus > > > > > > > > > to communicate with MHI device. Patch is tested using arm64 > > > > > > > > > based platform. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Wait, I thought this was for modems. > > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > Like it or not, but Jakub is absolutely right with his claim that > > providing user-visible interfaces without any standardization is proven > > as wrong. > > > > Everybody agrees with standardizing things but the problem is, the > standardization will only happen when more than one person implements the > same functionality.
>From my experience in RDMA and netdev, I can't agree with both of your statements. There are a lot of people who see standardization as a bad thing. Also we are pushing even one person to make user visible interfaces right from the beginning without relation to how wide it will be adopted later. Thanks
