RE: [PATCH 0/7] IB/hfi1: Remove write() and use ioctl() for user access

From: Woodruff, Robert J
Date: Fri Apr 15 2016 - 13:44:56 EST


> I fear it's kfabrics, which is an entirely crackpot idea and a total non-starter, but for some reason Intel and their buddies keep wasting time on it.

What is being discussed her is not kfabrics. That is a totally different out of kernel pathfinding project at this point.
What is being discussed here is how to best solve the write/writev issue with the PSM interface. The code submitted was to move
to IOCTL instead, but people like Jason have suggested routing the IOCTLs through the verbs layer instead.