[ofa-general] Re: management/libibcommon

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

Hi Vlad,

On 15:25 Thu 06 Sep     , Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sasha Khapyorsky [mailto:sashak at voltaire.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:23 PM
> > To: OpenIB
> > Cc: Hal Rosenstock; Ira Weiny; Eitan Zahavi; Sean Hefty; Dotan Barak;
> > Vladimir Sokolovsky
> > Subject: management/libibcommon
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Currently we have libibcommon library under OFA management project.
> > Partially it is used by libibumad and partially by libibmad and
> > infiniband-diags. The used things look pretty separate so I'm thinking
> > to strip libibcommon as whole library and its components over
> libibumad
> > and libibmad - this will remove extra dependency for libibumad.
> > 
> > Anybody else (except management) uses libibcommon? Any comments,
> > objections?
> > 
> > Sasha
> 
> Hi Sasha,
> AFAIK, mvapich, srptools and ibutils use libibcommon.

ibutils uses -libcommon for linking only because it is required by
libibumad.
srptools uses libibcommon directly, but mostly things which I wanted
to merge into libibumad, so should not be big problem there.
Didn't check mvapich yet.

> In any case if you are going to remove libibcommon, then ofabuild and
> ofed_1_3_scripts should be updated as well.
> I will be in vacation from 10 Sep 2007 till 2 Oct 2007. Please update
> Tziporet Koren and Michael Tsirkin with your decisions.

Anyway since libibcommon elimination touches couple of projects and
requires changes in ofed scripts I think it is not a great idea to do
it in last days before OFED-1.3 feature freeze. I will wait for
OFED-1.3 split.

Sasha