[ofa-general] RE: About create_qp_flags merging

[Ron Livne]

a) I added this new verb in order to expose the creation flag
	IB_QP_CREATE_BLOCK_MULTICAST_LOOPBACK from the kernel to
userspace.
	We want to let the user the option to choose it as a creation
flag if 	they want.
	If you'll merge it in, I'll post a patch to support it in
rdma_cm.
	Currently the only component using this flag is IPOIB.

b) I know that XRC was submitted before my patches.
	However, since I don't know when the XRC will be merged,
	I reposted a series of patches that don't need the XRC in order
to 	apply mine.

Ron


-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Dreier [mailto:rdreier at cisco.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 12:16 AM
To: Ron Livne
Cc: rolandd at cisco.com; general at lists.openfabrics.org; Olga Shern
Subject: Re: About create_qp_flags merging

 > You've told me that you're not going to merge the create_qp_flags
 > patches because they are stuck behind XRC.
 > 
 > However, I reposted new patches in December that don't rely on the
XRC
 > patches.

a) your patches look pointless, because they add a new userspace
   interface and then don't actually hook anything in libibverbs up to
   the new interface.

b) is there any reason why your patches are so important that I should
   skip merging the XRC work that was submitted before yours and jump to
   apply yours first?

 - R.