[openib-general] Re: [Rdma-developers] Meeting (07/22) summary: OpenRDMA community development discussion

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:18:55AM -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:
> During the IB BOF, I believe that it was Christoph who said something along the
> lines of: an RNIC vendor that wants their driver included with Linux should
> submit something that works with the OpenIB code currently in Linux with minimal
> changes to the stack.  Once that's in, work can begin on slowly creating a
> common RDMA API.

Exactly.  Note that no one cares about yet another useless midlayer at
all, iWarp isn't interesting to us at all until you actually open up
your card drivers or rather start writing sane ones.  Roland writing the
new mthca driver of mellanox IB cards is what got the OpenIB ball
rolling.