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Subject: Re: svn commit: r290003 - head/sys/ofed/include/linux
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Cc: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org,
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From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
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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?

--HPS