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<TITLE>RE: [openib-general] Mellanox verification team is starting to check in to the SVN tests</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hi roland.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanx for the feedback, we thought about the VL one more time after your email ...</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Do we really need an OS abstraction library? Can't we just use libc?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>We need the VL for several main reasons:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>* we write tests to both linux(gen2 stack) and windows(ibal stack) and we want to have common API to OS calls</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>* we want to have functionality that you don't want to add for the driver (for example: enum values to string)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>* we want to have functionality that cannot be found in other place (for example: random in kernel level)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> Can you post more details or better still fixes for the bugs?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>later i will send an email with the test command lines + the bugs they reveal.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> Would it be possible to update the tests for the new CQ API?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>fixed.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanx</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Dotan</FONT>
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