[openib-general] RE: [dat-discussions] comments on DATregistry in OpenIB

[Caitlin Bestler]

That is a reasonable migration plan, as long as rebuild 
is the only step required after fetching and placing the
kdat.h file. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Duffy [mailto:tduffy at sun.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:40 AM
> To: Caitlin Bestler
> Cc: dat-discussions at yahoogroups.com; openib-general
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] RE: [dat-discussions] comments 
> on DATregistry in OpenIB
> 
> On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 20:19 -0700, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> > Source compatability for an existing Provider is *not* 
> maintained by 
> > OpenIB kDAPL because there are fields *missing* from the Provider 
> > Info. That
> > *will*
> > result in a compilation error.
> 
> I have no problem with there being a header file with allows 
> for source compatibility.  This header would be maintained by 
> OpenIB, but never included in upstream.  I think James has a 
> start of such a header called kdat.h.  It needs a bunch more 
> to make it follow the DAT conventions.
> 
> -tduffy
> 
>