From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Steve Wise" Subject: RE: rdma-core build environment enabling out-of-core providers Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 08:14:38 -0500 Message-ID: <000301d30d23$a03bdad0$e0b39070$@opengridcomputing.com> References: <007601d30b96$f2408170$d6c18450$@opengridcomputing.com> <20170802160900.GB21208@obsidianresearch.com> <019001d30bc3$cc6648e0$6532daa0$@opengridcomputing.com> <44b511c6-45fa-d5aa-4d4c-e47d2edcf604@suse.de> <008401d30c5f$3c9e2560$b5da7020$@opengridcomputing.com> <20170803144733.GA13127@obsidianresearch.com> <890f961c-7aa8-1a73-e98d-f7ce9da333d7@suse.de> <20170803170713.GD13127@obsidianresearch.com> <7cc0ba31-7a05-4db1-5807-4d971fc3d773@suse.de> <011f01d30d15$1fa92750$5efb75f0$@opengridcomputing.com> <188beb70-9776-33fc-6f72-cc00e968db73@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <188beb70-9776-33fc-6f72-cc00e968db73-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> Content-Language: en-us Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: 'Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin' , 'Jason Gunthorpe' Cc: 'Leon Romanovsky' , 'Doug Ledford' , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org > >> It shouldn't be too hard to automatically extract one of the in-tree provider > >> and try to compile it as an out-of-tree. > >> And this way it's always up-to-date for testing. > >> > > That's a good idea. We could also have a simple "noop" type provider that at > least registers with the core but never claims any devices. This would at least verify > the build/install, and provider-load by libibverbs. > > > > Steve. > > > > noop is good for testing. A true provider would make sure we haven't missed any > headers. Agreed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html