[ofw] Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 1/3 v2] libibmad. 2nd revision for WinOF portablity.

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Wed Jan 21 16:40:49 PST 2009


On 11:02 Wed 21 Jan     , Sean Hefty wrote:
> >For maintenance troubles start I will need to ensure that all fields in
> >discussed array are placed in proper order even before the patch - there
> >was never such requirement before and there are more than 200 fields. :(
> 
> Arlin did this work and it is included in his patch. 

Yes. I see already.

> WinOF was copied on these mailings.  So far there has been zero support for
> changing compilers.  (In fact, I've had to push back on branching the code.)
> Windows drivers must be built using the WDK build environment, so WinOF has
> adopted that build environment for all of their libraries and applications as
> well.

Drivers can be different story, I'm about user space stuff. I would
expect from WinOF guys to be more interested to have portable
environment - I'm not doing ports from win :) .

Sasha



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