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

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 02:38:45PM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> >Stuff like this should be a build bug:
> >/* NOTE: assumes unsigned long is 8 bytes */
> 
> Our Kconfig depends on X86_64. Should we add a BUILD_BUG_ON or something?

Yes

> as we can maintain the same functionality, which seems doable. It's just
> that no one has spoken up about these things in the 9+ months since the
> driver was added. We need a bit of time to get it all sorted out.

Unfortunately this is a bit of a flaw with the staging process, really
it is not designed to handle uAPI work.

Jason