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

[Doug Ledford]

On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 12:56 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe 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.

While I generally agree, one need not be totally callous about out of
tree things either.


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