linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ABI: update infiniband sysfs interfaces

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Message-ID: <20180201220811.GA17053@ziepe.ca>
Date:   Thu, 1 Feb 2018 15:08:11 -0700
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@...il.com>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ABI: update infiniband sysfs interfaces

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 07:02:33PM +0530, Aishwarya Pant wrote:
> Add documentation for core and hardware specific infiniband interfaces.
> The descriptions have been collected from git commit logs, reading
> through code and data sheets. Some drivers have incomplete doc and are
> annotated with the comment '[to be documented]'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@...il.com>
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-infiniband | 755 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 755 insertions(+)

Wow this looks really great

Should this patch delete some of the old documentation?

> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-infiniband b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-infiniband

Lots, maybe even all of of this is considered stable..

> +sysfs interface for Broadcom NetXtreme-E RoCE driver
> +----------------------------------------------------
> +
> +What:		/sys/class/infiniband/bnxt_reX/fw_rev
> +What:		/sys/class/infiniband/bnxt_reX/hw_rev
> +What:		/sys/class/infiniband/bnxt_reX/hca_type

These are actually common to all drivers

 /sys/class/infiniband/XXX/fw_rev, etc

Jason