[ofa-general] [PATCH] libibverbs: Added the man page verbs.7

[Dotan Barak]

Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:19 +0200, Dotan Barak wrote:
>   
>> Or Gerlitz wrote:
>>     
>>> Sean Hefty wrote:
>>>       
>>>> The verbs also support iWarp devices and are not necessarily 
>>>> restricted to the
>>>> 1.2 IB spec definitions.  It might make sense to state that the IB
>>>> implementation is based on the 1.2 spec in an IB specific section, 
>>>> but keep the
>>>> general documentation transport neutral at this point.
>>>>         
>>> Sure, the page would be changed to reflect that.
>>>
>>> Or.
>>>       
>> Sorry, i didn't find the time to get to it until now.
>>
>> I changed the problematic sentence to:
>> "This library is an implementation of the verbs based on the Infiniband 
>> specification volume 1.2 chapter 11."
>>     
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^
>                 volume 1
>
> Also, should this refer to IBA 1.2.1 rather than 1.2 (if that was what
> was intended by the 1.2 reference) ?
>   
I must admit that i didn't have a chance to check IB spec 1.2.1 BUT
1) Many of the features are implemented by the IB devices, and i don't 
know if all of them
     behave according to spec 1.2.1
2) Spec 1.2 introduced new features (such as SRQ and some more) which 
didn't exist in
    spec 1.1, so i wanted to make to make sure that they are supported. 
(as much as i know,
    most of the users don't have a copy of the IB spec )

3) If one month from now, spec 1.2.2 will be published; should we update 
this file?

I think that sentence is good (spec 1.2) for now...


Do you think that we should remove the spec version completely?
(i don't think that it is wise to update the version unless there is a 
good reason for it ..)

thanks
Dotan