[openib-general] InfiniBand incompatible with the Linux kernel?

[Troy Benjegerdes]

Well, fortunately this has turned out to be a non-issue.

I just went to www.infinibandta.org and the 1.2 spec is available for 
download.

http://www.infinibandta.org/specs/register/publicspec/vol1r1_2.zip
http://www.infinibandta.org/specs/register/publicspec/vol2r1_2.zip

Roland Dreier wrote:

>    Roland> it's orthogonal to any IP issues.  Since the Linux kernel
>    Roland> contains a lot of code written to specs available only
>    Roland> under NDA (and even reverse-engineered code where specs
>    Roland> are completely unavailable), I don't think the expense
>    Roland> should be an issue.
>
>    Francois> One can say good bye to peer review.
>
>Yes and no.  Certainly people without specs can't review spec
>compliance, but review for coding style, locking bugs, etc. is if
>anything more valuable.
>
>Thanks,
>  Roland
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