[openib-general] [PATCH] IPoIB Building (gen2)

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Fri Aug 6 08:28:43 PDT 2004


Roland Dreier wrote:
>     > -   Support for the IP-over-InfiniBand protocol (IPoIB). This
>     > +   Support for the IETF IP-over-InfiniBand protocol (IPoIB).
> This
>
> I'm wondering whether this change is useful -- none of the kernel's
> existing Kconfig entries for things like IPv6 or IPsec mention "IETF."
> Is adding IETF here going to make this clearer to anyone?

I just wanted to distinguish from all the earlier (and there were quite a
few)
proprietary ways of doing IPoIB and so there is some name confusion.
It's not a big deal but I don't think the same thing applies in for IPv6 or
IPsec.

-- Hal




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