[openib-general] Suggested components to support in 1.0

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at pathscale.com
Fri Feb 24 10:28:28 PST 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 13:24 -0500, James Lentini wrote:

> uDAPL should be included. The different providers were developed to 
> support 3 different OpenIB configurations: OpenIB verbs (when there 
> was no user space CM), OpenIB verbs + IB CM, and OpenIB verbs + RDMA 
> CM. I recommend you include the openib_cma provider and the user space 
> RDMA cm library.

OK, thanks.  Someone will need to write RPM spec files for these
components.  Is this something someone at NetApp can do?

> kDAPL does not need to be in the release, although it would be trivial 
> to include it.

My understanding is that kDAPL has been vetoed for inclusion in the
upstream kernel, so I do not currently see any point in shipping it.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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