Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 11:15:20 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r290003 - head/sys/ofed/include/linux Message-ID: <20151030111520.09826845@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <56332494.4050709@selasky.org> References: <201510261328.t9QDSYRT076892@repo.freebsd.org> <56302F9D.2020308@freebsd.org> <56308289.4050902@selasky.org> <20151029143651.GN97830@FreeBSD.org> <56323B33.8020505@selasky.org> <20151030084126.53f7ffce@ernst.home> <56332494.4050709@selasky.org>
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On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 09:04:36 +0100 Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> wrote: > On 10/30/15 08:41, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 16:28:51 +0100 > > Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> wrote: > > > >> On 10/29/15 15:36, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > >>>> The LinuxKPI is not a binary compatibility module, and will at some > >>> H> point have API's diverging from Linux, to fit BSD API's better. > >>> > >>> This statement makes the name of LinuxKPI quite pointless, as well > >>> as the whole idea of the KPI unclear. > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> To be more clear. Adding bind_irq_to_cpu() is more an exception than the > >> default. A the moment I think Linux doesn't have an equivalent of this > >> function, because of Linux's interrupt model. > >> > > > > My question is whether a "normal" FreeBSD user has any reason to > > enable LinuxKPI now or in the future. > > > > Hi, > > If drivers which depend on this feature are KLD's there's no reason to > enable this by default in GENERIC. The current and future clients of > LINUXKPI will possibly be KLD's and then MODULE_DEPEND() will do the > magic behind the scenes. Was this your question? > Well, I guess the answer is "no", if I understand you correctly. -- Gary Jennejohn
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