[ofa-general] RE: [ofw] RE: porting IB management code to Windows

[Smith, Stan]

Sean Hefty wrote:
>>> We've started porting the IB management code (IB-diags at this
>>> point) to Windows.  My strong preference is to avoid branching the
>>> code and instead keep a single source code tree.  Is there any
>>> objection to accepting changes against the management tree to allow
>>> the code to run on both Linux and Windows?
>>
>> Basically I have no objections against porting changes. And I also
>> would prefer to keep a single code base.
>>
>> However, I would prefer to minimize amount of needed changes and
>> would really prefer to not get a lot of limitations in using modern
>> C. I will comment inline in the patch example below.
>
> As long as we have agreement to work towards a single code base, we
> can be flexible on the changes.  I built the code by dropping it into
> the Windows build tree and using the WDK build environment.  There's
> not a strong reason to require building using the WDK, so I'll look
> at alternatives to building the diag code on Windows.

Hold the presses - there is an absolute requirement that any part of a WinOF release builds using the WDK build environment!

Stan.

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