[openib-general] [PATCH][RFC] nfsordma: initial port of nfsrdma to 2.6 and james'sss kdapl

[Talpey, Thomas]

At 06:25 PM 6/27/2005, Tom Duffy wrote:
>I have done some initial work to port nfsrdma to 2.6 and to James's
>kDAPL.  This builds now inside the kernel.

Tom, thanks for starting this and I'll take a look at your approach.
In fact we already have a version working on 2.6.11, the main change
merging up to 2.6.12 is having to merge with Chuck's new RPC
transport switch.

We are definitely willing to GPL the code, I am in the process of
getting that approved and putting the result in the pipeline. I am
not sure about using the OpenIB repository just yet, because of
the dependency on the RPC transport. We don't want to inject
the changes in multiple places.

Let's caucus offline to figure out how to handle the repository
question. It shouldn't be a major issue once we figure out the
dependencies. I'll get back to you tomorrow (after taking a look
at these patches too).

Tom.


>
>You will need to follow the kDAPL directions first to put that in your
>kernel tree, then slap this patch over top of that.
>
>So you have 2.6.12 + svn drivers/infiniband + kdapl from james's tree +
>this patch to get it to build.  Oh you will also need to patch the rpc
>header to get it to build.
>
>I think it is time to open up a tree in openib repository.  Tom, is
>netapp willing to GPL this code?
>