Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in the linux kernel

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 13:12:17 EST


On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:01:13AM -0800, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> As an FYI, the code is available for download on bitkeeper at
> http://infiniband.bkbits.net/iba. We're still working on providing a
> tarball and patch for 2.6, but if you would like to see the code now, it
> is available.

Oh, I've seen that code, and still feel ill after looking at some of
it...

Come on, implementing your own spinlocks (and getting it wrong) and
atomit_t? Why in the world would you _ever_ want to do that.

That code needs a _lot_ of cleanup to make it into the kernel tree.

Good luck,

greg k-h
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