From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: RDMA will be reverted Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:41:41 +0400 Message-ID: <20060628074140.GA20172@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20060628.000715.95062023.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Cc: rolandd@cisco.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Return-path: Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:25057 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932757AbWF1HmD (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:42:03 -0400 To: David Miller Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060628.000715.95062023.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:07:15AM -0700, David Miller (davem@davemloft.net) wrote: > Roland, there is no way in the world we would have let support for > RDMA into the kernel tree had we seen and reviewed it on netdev. I've > discussed this with Andrew Morton, and we'd like you to please revert > all of the RDMA code from Linus's tree immedialtely. May I suggest to not revert it. RDMA and RDDP can be considered as tun/tap or packet socket devices until they start to change internal network structures. As far as I can see they do not, only use existing like userspace can. -- Evgeniy Polyakov