[openib-general] InfiniBand 2.6.17 merge plans

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 11:56 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:

>  * PathScale ipath driver.  In my git tree at
> 
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git ipath
> 
>    There is still ia64 build breakage and a lot of sparse endian
>    annotations to clean up before it's mergeable.

These are all fixed now.

>    - Working around the IB midlayer SMA (subnet management agent) /
>      implementation with a character device when ib_mad isn't loaded.

We dropped this in the round of changes I just submitted.

>    - The driver depends on 64BIT && PCI_MSI, and is basically
>      x86_64-only for practical purposes.  I think this is OK as far as
>      a merge goes, but it would be nice to be able to use a PCIe
>      device on any system with PCIe slots...

We'll see what we can do about this at some point, but I don't think it
should block the merge.

	<b