svn commit: r290003 - head/sys/ofed/include/linux
Gary Jennejohn
gljennjohn at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 10:15:29 UTC 2015
On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 09:04:36 +0100
Hans Petter Selasky <hps at 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 at 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.
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Gary Jennejohn
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