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Date:      Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:36:51 +0300
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r290003 - head/sys/ofed/include/linux
Message-ID:  <20151029143651.GN97830@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <56308289.4050902@selasky.org>
References:  <201510261328.t9QDSYRT076892@repo.freebsd.org> <56302F9D.2020308@freebsd.org> <56308289.4050902@selasky.org>

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On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 09:08:41AM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
H> >> Log:
H> >>    Add support for binding IRQs to CPUs in the LinuxKPI. The new function
H> >>    added is for BSD only and does not exist in Linux.
H> >
H> > um, then who would use it and why?
H> 
H> The parameters for bus_bind_intr() are not available outside the 
H> LinuxKPI. To support such a functionality we should wrap it, for the 
H> sake of maintainability.
H> 
H> 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.

Can you please explain what is the target of LinuxKPI, then?

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.



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