FW: [openib-general] Minutes from DAPL BOF at OpenIB Workshop

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:28:43AM -0800, Tom Duffy wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 14:48 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Umm, you IB guys had lots of strange ideas on what code was acceptable
> > until Roland stepped ahead and started the rewrite of the codebase.
> 
> Don't worry.  We have learned.  We will clean it up.  The code with be
> in kernel normal form before ever seeing lkml.
> 
> > Similarly even if we agree on a higher-level API not much of the
> > existing code would be of any use.
> 
> The *DAPL API is already decided in a spec.  If we change it, it will
> become lose compliance.

Who cares?  Specs don't matter at all for kernel APIs.  The kDAPL API
as-is is won't go in the kernel, and no amount of cosmetic cleanup
can change that.