[openib-general] Suggested components to support in 1.0

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 14:42 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > HCA support (both kernel driver and userspace verbs components):
> 
>  >      * ehca
>  >      * ipath
> 
> I would be concerned about putting these in the release, since the
> kernel side will need to be revised for upstream inclusion.  There's
> no guarantee that the ABI will remain stable, and hence there could be
> some real compatibility problems.

What compatibility problems are you worried about?  Little or none of
the userspace ABI is provided directly by the hardware drivers.

>  >      * SRP
> 
> SRP is upstream, and is needed to talk to the native IB storage that's
> on the market.  I don't see why we would want to try and strip this
> out of a release.

Fine.

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