[openib-general] Re: IB Diagnositic Tools

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Jun 28 05:08:54 PDT 2005


Quoting r. Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com>:
> Will the Linux distros take it this way (with #ifdef OS)

I never looked at opensm vendor layer, but generally
in userspace code, it is not always worth it the effort to get rid of all
os-dependent code.

"If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create
an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program
intelligently."

-- Linus Torvalds on Microkernels (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)


-- 
MST



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