Re: [RFC v2 1/2] PCI-Express Non-Transparent Bridge Support

[chetan loke]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Jon Mason <jon.mason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I don't see the benefit of having the driver in staging.  Any vendors
> who would notice the ntb driver in staging would be sitting on these
> mailing lists and hopefully have planety of comments on the design.
> Stashing the driver in staging while waiting for these comments (which
> may never come) doesn't seem the best course of action.
>

I thought that since others are talking about it then may be there is
some WIP code for foo-NTB. Seems like that's not the case. So no need
to stage.

Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't apps just open a socket and route
data via ntb_vir_eth_dev? So I don't see an ABI breakage issue and
hence nothing would prevent us from changing the kernel parts(for
accommodating some foo-NTB part) in future.

It may not be a bad idea to prefix intel-specific(if any)
ntb_structs/variables/logic with the 'intc'(Intel ticker or pick your
string) keyword.

Chetan Loke
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