Re: [PATCH 2/3] RDMA/hfi1, rdmavt: open-code rvt_set_ibdev_name()

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2026, at 22:47, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> On 3/23/26 7:01 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 09:48:59AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> - The use of INFINIBAND_RDMAVT seems unnecessary: right now
>>>    this is only used by hfi1, now shared with hfi2 but later to
>>>    be exclusive to the latter. Since it is unlikely to ever
>>>    be used by another driver again, this may be a good time
>>>    to drop the abstraction again and integrate it all into
>>>    hfi2, with the old version getting dropped along with hfi1.
>> 
>> The best approach is to drop rdmavt as well, since hfi2 is expected to
>> align with the other drivers in drivers/infiniband/hw.
>> 
>> Dennis, is this feasible?
>
> Feasible yes. I'd like to get hfi2 crossed off the list and in the tree 
> first though. Then come back and do that. I'd like to do more than just 
> plop rdmavt inside hfi2 and call it a day. There is a lot of code 
> cleanup/simplification that we can do.

Does rdmavt have its own user-space ABI? If there is anything that
you'd want to change, this might be the one chance to do it, otherwise
I see nothing wrong with integrating it only after hfi1 is gone.

      Arnd