[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 0/2] Opensm support for external routing engines

[Eli Dorfman (Voltaire)]

Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> On 15:29 Tue 23 Jun     , Ira Weiny wrote:
>> No the idea of a "plugable routing engine".
> 
> Ok. Let's try to summarize.
> 
> 1. We have pretty generic plugin interface right now and users may use
> it as they want (including routing engines obviously). If improvements
> are needed in this area (such as plugin(s) reload on the fly or any
> other) let's go ahead and do it.

How can this plugin interface enable configuration of routing engines order?

> 
> 2. I don't see why we need yet another plugin interface specific to
> routing engines - (1) should be good enough for such purposes.
> 
> 3. Regardless to above I don't think that we as open source community
> should support any sort of "proprietary additions". Yes, it is allowed
> for third parties, but it is not our charter.

These are not proprietary additions but only an infrastructure to enable proprietary implementations and to
reduce opensm dependency (e.g. plugin mysql).


Eli