[openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] drop mthca from svn?

[Fabian Tillier]

Hi Roland,

On 8/28/06, Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote:
>    Roland> You can't guarantee that someone won't come along and
>    Roland> write some IB driver and get it merged upstream without a
>    Roland> BSD license.  So there's not much we can do anyway.
>
>    Sean> Such a driver wouldn't be an OpenFabrics driver though.
>
> Well, what is an "OpenFabrics driver" anyway?  I'm interesting in
> writing Linux drivers to be honest.

Mellanox is currently tracking the MTHCA code base for Windows, and
moving it out of SVN could make that harder, even impossible if it
were to lose the BSD license.

- Fab