[ofw] error trying to install Windows stack

[Tzachi Dar]

In general, if you replace the dll and sys file and restart things they
will use the new DLLs.

For user mode, restart is probably closing all application using DAPL
and restarting them or even just renaming existing DLL and than copy the
new one, and new application will use it.

For kernel, this might mean that one will have to download DAPL and
restart it. I don't know what this really means, but if there are only a
few applications using DAPL, this shouldn't be a problem as well. 

In any case, this is not really related to the question weather checked
builds are being installed or not.

Thanks
Tzachi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Hefty [mailto:sean.hefty at intel.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:44 PM
> To: 'Fab Tillier'; Tzachi Dar; ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: RE: [ofw] error trying to install Windows stack
> 
> >The DLLs are there to provider kernel bypass functionality 
> (mthcau.dll) 
> >and user-mode support (ibal.dll and complib.dll).  It comes down to 
> >whether you want to install the kernel bits only with the 
> INF and then 
> >require a different installation mechanism for the user-mode 
> bits, or 
> >whether you install everything from the INF.
> 
> From an end-user's perspective, installing everything is 
> fine.  But it's not clear to me if changes can make 
> development easier.
> 
> If I make a fix to, say, DAPL, does that require 
> re-installing the kernel drivers?  I would like a way to 
> build and install a single driver only, or a single library.  
> Is there an easy way to do this?
> 
> - Sean
> 
>