[openib-general] kDAPL: ready for gen2/trunk/ inclusion?

[James Lentini]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:21:02PM -0700, Tom Duffy wrote:
>> Now that the majority of the cleanup is complete, I think kDAPL is ready
>> to be moved to gen2/trunk.
>>
>> This would also be a good time to get NFSoRDMA ported to kDAPL as the
>> API is unlikely to change too much in the future.
>
> What's the policy on putting stuff to gen2/trunk?
>
> The code is certainly not going anywhere near the kernel tree,

What additional changes do you recommend?

Here are the major issues I'm aware of:

  - move the consumer to using a register/callback interface for
    discovering providers (this will better support hot plug).
  - choose a IP <-> GID mapping strategy

> but I don't know if that's a requirement for the trunk, sdp has been 
> on it for a long timer either without going to the kernel tree.