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Date:	Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:32:36 +0800
From:	Kenneth Lee <Kenneth-Lee-2012@...mail.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, joe@...ches.com, liguozhu@...ilicon.com,
	Yisen.Zhuang@...wei.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxarm@...wei.com, salil.mehta@...wei.com, xuwei5@...ilicon.com,
	lisheng011@...wei.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	huangdaode <huangdaode@...ilicon.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] hisilicon net: removes the once
 HANDEL_TX_MSG macro

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 04:18:23PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:18:23 +0200
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> To: Kenneth Lee <Kenneth-Lee-2012@...mail.com>
> Cc: davem@...emloft.net, joe@...ches.com, liguozhu@...ilicon.com,
>  Yisen.Zhuang@...wei.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxarm@...wei.com,
>  salil.mehta@...wei.com, kenneth-lee-2012@...mail.com,
>  xuwei5@...ilicon.com, lisheng011@...wei.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
>  huangdaode <huangdaode@...ilicon.com>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] hisilicon net: removes the
>  once HANDEL_TX_MSG macro
> Message-ID: <6914069.XLdT9Eli48@...rfel>
> 
> On Tuesday 13 October 2015 21:27:12 Kenneth Lee wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, Arnd,
> > 
> > Thank you for the comment. Yes, the io_base is a security problem, we
> > will fix it in coming patch soon.
> > 
> > But can we keep the sysfs? The interface from hnae is not used only by
> > ethernet driver but also by Open Data Plane driver. If we more it to
> > upper layers. Both drivers will have the same logic. 
> > 
> > So how about we just add documents to Documention/ABI?
> 
> Hi Kenneth,
> 
> In the end this is up to David Miller of course, but I'd say we are
> better off not introducing any ABIs for ODP prematurely.
> 
> We are talking about very generic statistics data, and you should
> already provide them for the ethernet driver using the standard
> interfaces.
> 
> I have not seen any discussion about adding an ODP subsystem for
> the Linux kernel, or what the API will be, but I think we should
> not export any interfaces from a particular device driver directly
> but always go through a common layer here and use an extensible
> interface that can be implemented by everyone.
> 
> The API has not been part of a release yet, so I'd say we should
> remove it for now. Once we have a net/odp/ directory, we can
> add a driver-independent implementation there and call it from
> the hisi driver.
> 
> 	Arnd

Hi, Arnd,

Agree. We will remove the interface for the time being. Thank you.

-- 
			-Kenneth Lee (Hisilicon)


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