Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 V3 0/4] RDMAtool

From: Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:29:31 +0200

Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 06:01:44PM CEST, [email-masked] wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:02:30AM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 09:55:37AM CEST, [email-masked] wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >This is third version of series implementing the RDAMtool -  the tool
>> >to configure RDMA devices. The initial proposal was sent as RFC [1] and
>> >was based on sysfs entries as POC.
>> >
>> >The current series was rewritten completely to work with RDMA netlinks as
>> >a source of user<->kernel communications. In order to achieve that, the
>> >RDMA netlinks were extensively refactored and modernized [2, 3, 4 and 5].
>> >
>> >The following is an example of various runs on my machine with 5 devices
>> >(4 in IB mode and one in Ethernet mode)
>> >
>> >### Without parameters
>> >$ rdma
>> >Usage: rdma [ OPTIONS ] OBJECT { COMMAND | help }
>> >where  OBJECT := { dev | link | help }
>> >       OPTIONS := { -V[ersion] | -d[etails]}
>>
>> What about json output? You will need it sooner than later. It will
>> prevent you from a lot of headaches if you implement it right away.
>> Lesson learned...
>
>I'm planning to do it in the coming kernel cycle.

Yeah, just consider pushing it in this initial patchset. Makes sense and
saves you troubles. Up to you.