Re: [PATCH v6 01/26] IB/Verbs: Implement new callback query_transport()

[Doug Ledford]

On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 22:11 +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Jason Gunthorpe
> <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:24:35PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 17:53 -0700, Tom Talpey wrote:
> >
> >> Having some of it refer to things as IBOE and some as ROCE would be
> >> similarly confusing, and switching existing IBOE usage to ROCE would
> >> cause pain to people with out of tree drivers (Lustre is the main one I
> >> know of).  There's not a good answer here.  There's only less sucky
> >> ones.
> >
> > The tide has already turned, we should ditch iboe:
> >
> > $git grep -i roce_ drivers/infiniband/ | wc -l
> > 91
> > $git grep -i iboe_ drivers/infiniband/ | wc -l
> > 37
> >
> > It isn't really mainline's role to be too concerned about out of tree
> > things like Lustre.
> 
> FWIW, note that Lustre is under staging for a while, not sure how
> close they are for actual acceptance.

I thought that was just the client and didn't include the server...


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