Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] RFC: start weaning userspace drivers from sysfs

2006-04-13 Thread Roland Dreier
Bryan> Is the goal of this to make sure that new hardware-specific Bryan> libraries will work with old libibverbs? How likely do you Bryan> think that is to happen? I don't see much of a problem Bryan> with simply breaking backwards compatibility here, since it Bryan> seems un

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] RFC: start weaning userspace drivers from sysfs

2006-04-13 Thread Johann George
> As part of the libibverbs 1.1 release, I would like to remove the > dependency on libsysfs I highly approve of this move. > the simple sysfs stuff we need is easy to do directly. I was looking at it earlier this week and came to the same conclusion. Johann

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] RFC: start weaning userspace drivers from sysfs

2006-04-13 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Thursday 13 April 2006 13:41, Roland Dreier wrote: > As part of the libibverbs 1.1 release, I would like to remove the > dependency on libsysfs, since libsysfs is not very well maintained, > not consistent across distros, and the simple sysfs stuff we need is > easy to do directly. Sounds good.

[openib-general] [PATCH] RFC: start weaning userspace drivers from sysfs

2006-04-13 Thread Roland Dreier
As part of the libibverbs 1.1 release, I would like to remove the dependency on libsysfs, since libsysfs is not very well maintained, not consistent across distros, and the simple sysfs stuff we need is easy to do directly. In this direction, I've already made some changes to libibverbs to reduce