[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 0/2] Opensm support for external routing engines

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 14:59 Wed 24 Jun     , Eli Dorfman (Voltaire) wrote:
> > 
> > 1. We have pretty generic plugin interface right now and users may use
> > it as they want (including routing engines obviously). If improvements
> > are needed in this area (such as plugin(s) reload on the fly or any
> > other) let's go ahead and do it.
> 
> How can this plugin interface enable configuration of routing engines order?

Is it related to the order? The order is defined by configuration
parameter with plugin or without it.

> > 2. I don't see why we need yet another plugin interface specific to
> > routing engines - (1) should be good enough for such purposes.
> > 
> > 3. Regardless to above I don't think that we as open source community
> > should support any sort of "proprietary additions". Yes, it is allowed
> > for third parties, but it is not our charter.
> 
> These are not proprietary additions but only an infrastructure to enable proprietary implementations

And I don't think that we need to care about such infrastructure.

> and to reduce opensm dependency (e.g. plugin mysql).

That's different story - see (1) and (2).

Sasha