[openib-general] Re: libibverbs and sysfsutils

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Mar 6 11:00:02 PST 2006


    Bryan> Hi, Roland - At least in the 1.0 branch, libibverbs still
    Bryan> has a dependency on sysfsutils.  Since sysfsutils is both
    Bryan> worthless and orphaned, I'd prefer that this dependency
    Bryan> disappeared, particularly since vendors tend not to like to
    Bryan> ship unneeded packages.

    Bryan> Is this something you think you can fix prior to 1.0?  If
    Bryan> so, I'll file a bug and assign it to you.

No, the API and ABI for libibverbs 1.0 is frozen.  This is something
that will be done for the 1.1 libibverbs release in ~6 months.

 - R.



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