[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] opensm/event_plugin: plugin API version 2

[Ira Weiny]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:59:39 +0300
Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com> wrote:

> On 09:39 Thu 26 Jun     , Ira Weiny wrote:
> > One comment, which I mentioned to you off-list, was that passing struct
> > osm_opensm without having that header public currently breaks my plugin and
> > will make it impossible for them to compile against the installed headers.
> 
> Right, is is disadvantage.
> 
> > I am really leaning toward including all the headers in the opensm-devel
> > package so plugin writers don't have to have a git tree to build.
> 
> I think we can do it. Personally I will not build plugin against RPM
> package, IMHO plugin writing required OpenSM knowledge at a source code
> level. But others may want just to build plugin, so it can be useful.

Exactly, many people will want to build plugin's without knowing anything.  I
also see plugins as being something many people add to an already included
distro so...

> 
> Want me to add this?
> 

I will add it, as I work through it with my plugin.

Ira