[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver

[Roland Dreier]

    Bryan> It does when our OpenIB driver is being used.  But our
    Bryan> lower level driver is independent of OpenIB (and is often
    Bryan> used without the infiniband stuff even configured into the
    Bryan> kernel), and needs to provide some way for a userspace
    Bryan> subnet management agent to send and receive packets.

Isn't there some way you can use the same SMA (subnet management
agent) interface in all the cases?  Can ipath_mad.c just go away in
favor of your userspace SMA?

 - R.