Re: [PATCH 0/7] IB/hfi1: Remove write() and use ioctl() for user access

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 05:44:48PM +0000, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> > I fear it's kfabrics, which is an entirely crackpot idea and a total non-starter, but for some reason Intel and their buddies keep wasting time on it.
> 
> What is being discussed her is not kfabrics. That is a totally different out of kernel pathfinding project at this point.
> What is being discussed here is how to best solve the write/writev issue with the PSM interface. The code submitted was to move
> to IOCTL instead, but people like Jason have suggested routing the IOCTLs through the verbs layer instead.

The discussion here is much broader than conversion of PSM interface.

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