[openib-general] [PATCH] librdmacm: fix bug causing failure to work with partial membership pkey

[Or Gerlitz]

Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 15:45, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>> On 21 Feb 2007 08:20:23 -0500, Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com> wrote:

>> If the IPoIB spec does not allow both partial and full members of a
>> partition to share a broadcast domain (eg the IPv4 broadcast group
>> associated with the full membership pkey) or any other multicast
>> group, burn it (or at least the relevant section).

> I was referring to the IB spec, not an IPoIB RFC.

Can you provide a pointer?

>> The OpenIB code supposed to work and as done with the RDMA CM header,
>> the implementation should not wait for spec to be written or changed.

> Really ? Maybe I'm mistaken but I didn't think that OpenIB/OpenFabrics
> wanted to issue code which is not IBA spec compliant.

The code resides in the Linux kernel, period. Linux is not under the 
control of this or that organization, period, period. Linux uses an 
hierarchic maintainship structure where Roland, Sean and yourself are 
listed as the maintainers, which means you are able to promote and/or 
block this or that agenda, go for it!

Or.