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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>
To: Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@dev•mellanox.co.il>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox•com>, netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@mellanox•com>,
	yevgenyp@mellanox•com, Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox•com>,
	Tal Alon <talal@mellanox•com>,
	shannon.nelson@intel•com, dledford@redhat•com,
	greearb@candelatech•com, gregory.v.rose@intel•com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel•com, jesse.brandeburg@intel•com,
	john.ronciak@intel•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V1 0/3] net/mlx4_core: Allow setting init-time device specific parameters
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 10:00:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150312090042.GB1092@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJL1qvHP0cLRVf53J9MuJrYCJLjE=mzEU70JofJ8zH_Yf-O16g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:07:35AM +0200, Hadar Hen Zion wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:14 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft•net> wrote:
> >
> > From: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox•com>
> > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:08:50 +0200
> >
> > > Also, customers are paying for a very sophisticated piece of
> > > hardware, and we would like to enable power user to tweak it in some
> > > situtations. Of course the default mode should be used in 99% of the
> > > use cases.
> >
> > How much money someone pays for your hardware has nothing to do with
> > the standards by which we design userspace interfaces to configure
> > these devices.
> >
> > These textual interfaces are arbitrary, and you are choosing it only
> > because you cannot come up with a more reasonable scheme,
> >
> > I'm not applying these changes.
> > --
> 
> In previous conversations Greg suggested us to use configfs.
> 
> Is this case a misuse of configfs?  maybe configfs should be deprecated... Greg?

No, this has nothing to do with the validity of configfs, please re-read
what David said to you.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-12  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-11  9:08 [PATCH net-next V1 0/3] net/mlx4_core: Allow setting init-time device specific parameters Amir Vadai
2015-03-11  9:08 ` [PATCH net-next V1 1/3] net/mlx4_core: Add configfs entries for setting " Amir Vadai
2015-03-11  9:08 ` [PATCH net-next V1 2/3] net/mlx4_core: Set port_type value according to configfs configuration Amir Vadai
2015-03-11  9:08 ` [PATCH net-next V1 3/3] net/mlx4_core: Set DMFS mode " Amir Vadai
2015-03-11 17:14 ` [PATCH net-next V1 0/3] net/mlx4_core: Allow setting init-time device specific parameters David Miller
2015-03-12  8:07   ` Hadar Hen Zion
2015-03-12  9:00     ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-03-12 12:02       ` Or Gerlitz
2015-03-12 13:46         ` Greg KH
2015-03-12 18:09         ` David Miller
2015-03-12 18:05     ` David Miller
2015-03-12 18:59       ` Hadar Hen Zion
2015-03-12 19:31         ` David Miller
2015-03-12 20:51           ` Or Gerlitz

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