[ewg] [PATCH] install.pl: Install QIB driver instead of Ipath

Ralph Campbell ralph.campbell at qlogic.com
Wed Jul 8 17:44:05 PDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 17:29 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > This patch installs the qib driver which replaces the ipath driver
>  > in OFED-1.5.
> 
> Maybe I missed some discussion of this.
> 
> But what is the QIB driver?  What are you planning to do to support
> qlogic HCAs for the mainline kernel?
> 
>  - R.

The ib_qib driver is a modified version of the ib_ipath driver
with a lot of changes to support dual ports, APM, QDR, etc.
It supports the older QLogic QLE SDR and DDR cards too.

The plan is to submit the ib_qib driver upstream soon.
It seemed better to rename the driver than try to patch
the old driver since the patches were likely to be larger.
At some point I would expect to remove the ib_ipath driver.
For now, we are just disabling the ib_ipath compile/install.




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