[openib-general] QoS RFC - Resend using a friendly mailer

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Thu Jun 1 11:09:49 PDT 2006


On 15:49 Tue 30 May     , Grant Grundler wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 10:09:36PM +0300, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> > > XML style syntax is provided for the policy file.
> > 
> > Why XML? It is not too much readable and writable (by human) format.
> 
> It is human readable and very portable.
> An example is here:
> 	http://svn.gnumonks.org/trunk/mmio_test/mmio_test.xml

Yes it is readable, but for many people it is _less_ readable and even
_less_ writable than "plain" text.

> And GPL libraries can parse XML.

It is true, but currently we have "portability" complaints even against
using libpthread.

Sasha

> So the new code is fairly short:
> 	http://svn.gnumonks.org/trunk/mmio_test/xmlin.c
> 
> hth,
> grant



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