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From: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 00/11] HFI Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC)
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 21:58:50 +0000
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On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 21:44 +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> This is Ethernet - not IP - encapsulation over a non-InfiniBand device/protocol.

That's more than clear from the cover letter. In my opinion the cover letter
should explain why it is considered useful to have such a driver upstream
and what the use cases are of encapsulating Ethernet frames inside RDMA
packets.

Bart.