[openib-general] RFC on SDP checkin

[Sean Hefty]

Sean Hefty wrote:

> Roland Dreier wrote:
> 
>>     Hal> Don't we want to be a little bit careful here in terms of
>>     Hal> being able to continue to derive patches on the pieces
>>     Hal> already submitted to kernel.org until we decide this is ready
>>     Hal> to go forward ? (Guess that might be when these build patches
>>     Hal> would be applied).
>>
>>     Tom> Well, I don't think the Makefiles ore Kconfig's will be
>>     Tom> changing for upstream submission, so as long as Roland is
>>     Tom> careful to only diff .[ch] files that are already in lkml, it
>>     Tom> shouldn't be a big deal.  I think for the ease of use for
>>     Tom> everybody that we plumb in cm and sdp.
>>
>> Agreed.  It's pretty easy for me to keep Kconfig/Makefile changes
>> straight now that we have the current stuff upstream.  I see no
>> problem with hooking up the CM and SDP.  (BTW it looks like SDP should
>> select the CM once there is a CM config option; also the SDP
>> dependency on INET is redundant because IPOIB alread depends on that)
> 
> 
> Libor, if you want to include the changes for the CM as part of your SDP 
> changes, feel free to do so.  Otherwise, I will submit a patch for the 
> CM as soon as possible.

I've committed a patch to include the CM as part of the core build.

- Sean