netdev - Re: [PATCH RESEND] net: qrtr: support qrtr service and lookup route

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Date:   Wed, 08 Apr 2020 14:33:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     wenhu.wang@...o.com
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kuba@...nel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        bjorn.andersson@...aro.org, hofrat@...dl.org, allison@...utok.net,
        johannes.berg@...el.com, arnd@...db.de, cjhuang@...eaurora.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...o.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] net: qrtr: support qrtr service and lookup route

From: Wang Wenhu <wenhu.wang@...o.com>
Date: Wed,  8 Apr 2020 03:46:35 -0700

> QSR implements maintenance of qrtr services and lookups. It would
> be helpful for developers to work with QRTR without the none-opensource
> user-space implementation part of IPC Router.
> 
> As we know, the extremely important point of IPC Router is the support
> of services form different nodes. But QRTR was pushed into mainline
> without route process support of services, and the router port process
> is implemented in user-space as none-opensource codes, which is an
> great unconvenience for developers.
> 
> QSR also implements a interface via chardev and a set of sysfs class
> files for the communication and debugging in user-space. We can get
> service and lookup entries conveniently via sysfs file in /sys/class/qsr/.
> Currently add-server, del-server, add-lookup and del-lookup control
> packatets are processed and enhancements could be taken easily upon
> currently implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Wenhu <wenhu.wang@...o.com>

New features are only appropriate for net-next which is closed right now.