Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Mon Oct 08 2007 - 19:55:18 EST


> No mention about the iwarp port space issue?

I don't think we're at a stage where I'm prepared to merge something--
we all agree the latest patch has serious drawbacks, and it commits us
to a suboptimal interface that is userspace-visible.

> I'm at a loss as to how to proceed.

Could we try to do some cleanups to the net core to make the alias
stuff less painful? eg is there any sane way to make it possible for
a device that creates 'eth0' to also create an 'iw0' alias without an
assigning an address?

- R.
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