[openib-general] [PATCH 0/6] Tranport Neutral Verbs Proposal.

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Aug 1 04:25:44 PDT 2006


On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:45:39AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > That's much better than rdma_, but do you really think the Linux folks
>  > are going to be happy about OpenFabrics calls with a prefix that
>  > doesn't look anything like "Open Fabrics"?
> 
> I don't think Linux folks care about Open Fabrics at all.
> 
> No other drivers have a brand name and it's pretty silly trying to
> brand IB/iWARP/RDMA/whatever drivers.

Exactly.  Please don't even try to put brand names (especially if
they're as stupid as this) in.  We don't call our wireless stack
centrino just because intel contributed to it either.





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