netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next V1 0/3] net/mlx4_core: Allow setting init-time device specific parameters

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Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2015 10:07:35 +0200
From:	Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@....mellanox.co.il>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@...lanox.com>, yevgenyp@...lanox.com,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	Tal Alon <talal@...lanox.com>, shannon.nelson@...el.com,
	dledford@...hat.com, greearb@...delatech.com,
	gregory.v.rose@...el.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, john.ronciak@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V1 0/3] net/mlx4_core: Allow setting init-time
 device specific parameters

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:14 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> From: Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:08:50 +0200
>
> > Also, customers are paying for a very sophisticated piece of
> > hardware, and we would like to enable power user to tweak it in some
> > situtations. Of course the default mode should be used in 99% of the
> > use cases.
>
> How much money someone pays for your hardware has nothing to do with
> the standards by which we design userspace interfaces to configure
> these devices.
>
> These textual interfaces are arbitrary, and you are choosing it only
> because you cannot come up with a more reasonable scheme,
>
> I'm not applying these changes.
> --

In previous conversations Greg suggested us to use configfs.

Is this case a misuse of configfs?  maybe configfs should be deprecated... Greg?

Is a scheme based on netlink will be acceptable by you?

Thanks,

Hadar and Amir
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