Re: Documentation: infiniband: move sysfs interface to ABI

From: Aishwarya Pant
Date: Tue Jan 09 2018 - 12:47:21 EST


On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 10:28:20AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 02:23:42PM +0530, Aishwarya Pant wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > In Documentation/infiniband/sysfs.txt, there is a description of the infiniband
> > sysfs interface and there also exists
> > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-infiniband which is out of date.
> >
> > Would it be useful to move out the interface completely from
> > Documentation/infiniband/sysfs.txt to the ABI?
>
> It would be good, but I fear all the documentation files are variously
> out of date, so it would be harder to do this task reliably without
> having various rdma devices to inspect?
>
> But if you want to take it on, I could probably get you some sysfs
> dumps from some systems to help?

Yes, I think that would be useful. I might not be able to fill in the
descriptions completely for all attributes but I can create a documentation
skeleton for them.

Aishwarya

>
> Jason