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Date:      Fri, 30 Oct 2015 08:41:26 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Cc:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r290003 - head/sys/ofed/include/linux
Message-ID:  <20151030084126.53f7ffce@ernst.home>
In-Reply-To: <56323B33.8020505@selasky.org>
References:  <201510261328.t9QDSYRT076892@repo.freebsd.org> <56302F9D.2020308@freebsd.org> <56308289.4050902@selasky.org> <20151029143651.GN97830@FreeBSD.org> <56323B33.8020505@selasky.org>

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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.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn



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