[openib-general] [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath driver - another round for review

[Talpey, Thomas]

At 07:35 PM 3/9/2006, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
>  - We've added an ethernet emulation driver so that if you're not
>    using Infiniband support, you still have a high-performance net
>    device (lower latency and higher bandwidth than IPoIB) for IP
>    traffic.

This strikes me as very unwise. In addition to duplicating a standardized
IPoIB facility, is the emulation supported by any other implementation?
Who will be using this code *without* having enabled the current OpenIB
support? What standardization is planned for this new protocol?

Tom.