[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2/9] ib_core: kernel API for GID -->MAC translations

[Roland Dreier]

 > Hum, This is a very tricky subject. Co-mingling the IB GID address
 > space and the IPv6 address space like this is not really something
 > that was envisioned from the IBA side.

Doesn't the IB spec say that an IB GID *is* an IPv6 address?  So in
theory it should be OK; however I don't think in practice anyone paid
attention to making sure that the IB GID space works as an IPv6 address.

 - R.