Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

!MAILaRCHIVE_VOTE_RePLACE
Previous message: [thread] [date] [author]
Next message: [thread] [date] [author]
To: Steve Wise <swise@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <general@...>
Date: Monday, October 8, 2007 - 7:54 pm

> No mention about the iwarp port space issue?

I don't think we're at a stage where I'm prepared to merge something--
we all agree the latest patch has serious drawbacks, and it commits us
to a suboptimal interface that is userspace-visible.

 > I'm at a loss as to how to proceed.

Could we try to do some cleanups to the net core to make the alias
stuff less painful?  eg is there any sane way to make it possible for
a device that creates 'eth0' to also create an 'iw0' alias without an
assigning an address?

 - R.
_______________________________________________
general mailing list
general@lists.openfabrics.org
http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general

To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
Previous message: [thread] [date] [author]
Next message: [thread] [date] [author]

Messages in current thread:
Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2...., Roland Dreier, (Mon Oct 8, 7:54 pm)
Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2...., Pradeep Satyanarayana, (Sat Oct 6, 10:02 pm)
Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2...., Pradeep Satyanarayana, (Tue Oct 9, 2:49 pm)