[openib-general] Problem with userspace tree structure

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Hello!
Quoting r. Roland Dreier (roland at topspin.com) "[openib-general] Problem with userspace tree structure":
> I started looking at the code that's being checked in under
> src/userspace/, and I think the current structure needs to be
> modified.  As it stands now, the whole userspace/ tree is treated as a
> single source package with a Makefile at the userspace/ level.
> 
> I think it would be far better to return to the older structure where
> the userspace/ directory just has subdirectories for various packages
> (such as userspace/tvflash).  If we continue with a monolithic
> userspace/ tree, then it becomes much harder to do releases (and also
> harder for users to build what they're interested in).  For example,
> it will become very annoying to have to do a full release of
> everything including opensm just to update ibstat.
> 
> In fact it's probably already very confusing that one can do a make
> from userspace/, but to build tvflash one has to do a make from
> userspace/tvflash.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Roland

Apropos tvflash, I think we want to copy mstflint from
https://openib.org/svn/trunk/contrib/mellanox/mstflint/
to somewhere under https://openib.org/svn/gen2/trunk/src/userspace/

As with tvflash, no driver is required,
and Mellanox does not support flashing tvflash for Mellanox-produced boards,
you really need mstflint for these.

OK?

MST