[Rdma-developers] Re: [openib-general] OpenIB and OpenRDMA: Convergence on common RDMAAPIs and ULPs for Linux

Tom Duffy tduffy at sun.com
Tue May 31 14:03:06 PDT 2005


On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 09:13 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 03:56:58PM -0700, Bob Woodruff wrote:
> > kDAPL is intended as a kernel-level API
> > for RDMA enabled fabrics. As it was initially written,
> > it does not meet the Linux coding style and that is why
> > it is being totally reworked as we speak to meet that goal. 
> 
> The codingstyle alone isn't the problem.  The whole design philosophy
> is rather odd.

As one of the people trying to clean up kDAPL, I would like to know what
you think, from a design philosophy, is wrong with it.  We *can* correct
any daim bramaged parts.

Thanks,

-tduffy
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