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

[Chris Friesen]

Greg KH wrote:

> Basically, what is lacking in the current kernel locks that the
> infiniband project has to have in order to work properly.  We can work
> from there.

I think their point is that they want the core device driver code to be 
portable across kernel versions, and across different OS's other than 
linux--which basically requires some kind of abstraction layer.

Chris

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