linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/7] Introduce KABIs to query UCONTEXT, PD and MR properties

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Message-ID: <20200617125910.GP65026@mellanox.com>
Date:   Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:59:10 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
To:     Yishai Hadas <yishaih@....mellanox.co.il>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@...lsio.com>,
        Steve Wise <larrystevenwise@...il.com>,
        Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/7] Introduce KABIs to query UCONTEXT, PD and
 MR properties

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:20:53PM +0300, Yishai Hadas wrote:
> On 6/17/2020 11:34 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:31:38AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 01:29:16AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > I think you are talking about UABIs (which in linux we actually call
> > > > uapis).
> > > 
> > > Yes, I used Yishai's cover letter as is.
> > 
> 
> We used in the past the "kABI" notation in the rdma sub system when we
> referred to the ioctl interface that kernel exposes to user space.

It is true, somewhere along the way it got to be called the "ioctl
kabi" which is confusing and wrong, we should move away from that
language.

Jason