Re: [PATCH] Fixups for the Altix Block Transfer Engine.

Robin Holt
2004-06-13T12:03:36Z

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:20:36AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 03:33:36PM -0500, Robin Holt wrote:
> > The attached patch contains some cleanups to the bte code
> > and introduces the ability to excercise bte interfaces on
> > other nodes. This is an Altix specific piece of hardware.
>
> While the patch look okay you're patching dead code and even add symbol
> exports to it. What about just completelty removing it instead and adding
> it to whatever out of tree module actually uses it?

Dean Nelson is in the process of pushing the xp, xpc, and xpnet
code to the community. That code relies upon the BTE. Is
removing BTE code and then reintroducing it the right way to
go?

Robin