linux-kernel - Re: Documentation: infiniband: move sysfs interface to ABI

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Date:   Tue, 9 Jan 2018 23:17:07 +0530
From:   Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@...il.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: Documentation: infiniband: move sysfs interface to ABI

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 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-infiniband which is out of date.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 out of date, so it would be harder to do this task reliably without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