netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 V3 0/4] RDMAtool

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Date:   Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:01:44 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Ariel Almog <ariela@...lanox.com>,
        Linux RDMA <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 V3 0/4] RDMAtool

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:02:30AM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 09:55:37AM CEST, leon@...nel.org 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.

Thanks

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