Re: [PATCH v2] RDMA/CMA: fix iWARP adapter TCP port space usage

Steve Wise
2010-06-11T23:45:16Z

Roland Dreier wrote:
> > You can peruse this thread from 2007:
> >
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/15/174
> >
> > In that thread David Miller said he would NAK this solution and even
> > NAK a solution where we expose the low level port allocation services
> > and allow RDMA/iWARP and TCP to share the port space. Thus I see no
> > way to resolve this issue with Dave's ACK, and maybe the RDMA
> > contributors and maintainers should move forward without it?
>
> If Dave Miller says this is an unacceptable thing to merge, then I'm not
> going to merge it over his explicit and unequivocal NAK. Trying sneak
> this in by hiding this patch on linux-rdma without cc-ing netdev is the
> wrong approach... the right approach is to get the hordes of users being
> hurt by this issue (if there are such hordes), make a big stink, and
> force a solution that everyone agrees on.
>
>

I hear ya.

It seems to be difficult to get end users to horde up and stink about
these sorts of technical issues, because they don't have the background
to argue their case. And technical merit alone isn't working here.

Steve.