From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: Upcoming libibverbs release Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 08:02:46 +0300 Message-ID: <20160628050246.GB3584@leon.nu> References: <3b89c411-72be-ddc5-5ebf-009eeee29692@redhat.com> <4ec1d8e6-a908-bb49-a137-415856ec6faa@dev.mellanox.co.il> <20160627181758.GD23540@obsidianresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jho1yZJdad60DJr+" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160627181758.GD23540-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Yishai Hadas , Doug Ledford , linux-rdma , Yishai Hadas , Matan Barak , Majd Dibbiny , "talal-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --jho1yZJdad60DJr+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:17:58PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Doug and I have both stated we don't want to see so many > single-provider APIs and churn in libibverbs. This was designed to be > a generic API that all providers can implement. >=20 > The responsibility falls on you to make sure that it works > universally. Compat is one option. >=20 > This is also why it is necessary to get the other provider authors to > say this works on their hardware, because they *all* ultimately have > to implement it. >=20 > I don't think many people realize this yet. >=20 Jason, You are over-estimating the number of other providers who are interesting in libibverbs in 2014-2016. According to git log [1] in these years, I see only one major contributor to this library. [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/libs/infiniband/libibverbs.git/log/ Thanks --jho1yZJdad60DJr+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXcgT1AAoJEORje4g2clinjfEQAIv/zPpt2HFdwyS3PhHWAn9t E06qDiWd2DYnso3r1Cqo7AyfxIfzkWgnJx4UAR8On6CaK2mt3wLbW+Z9lcFwhQlY ViO/XyBxTc13ddYEoIyXDACp6vOk3arpesrt1ApSnQQ0/VW3dTUnfi2iSBOlwZLA cBPSOiHmcjPkXRUgAMm7LDbo9M8Dvz/guOYDqC9F39TI8sOERWq3wvBMxTso7KFf kz1QoUJBzteeqIVhwwHBWpyA2nbr87XtkjSCXoqWsMo9xsTDomEBSb2kSkI/PakE YBVPNEDcB8o850Ig3XX2MQL49HG8Q83062aBeDxqoxnvMn1pWgRsPX+sfmRHg7MR vE4Gd/XKHeT+COV2lzynJ89EsiVudnaFz0y9ZRvgbpK9rmHy60Pvy6cqTs3AvyJb Jd746RGgZG9JyLfJVNIo44YIzHY5eH2Z4wcndw6Rv2GlWUJIHGR8nL9FSn8XrEhI pmz5wxEuQn02FSYPiAcKEeAqaHjOrvKvchwdKGhQssnD0gNFkVMMtSKm/MN4pii9 k5oq5VRabfCHB22yrQrLpogXlgcT1QpOGl4OyBwlEh8qsfDWk5yRYhhrLdZ9QtiG Qcjr1ZJaC1Y+7vl+VoShGgAKzrYlYHXa0VaPX+vBXWXF/25jYzfb+UwxlcBAQtFl svl+88nPBddbibLYoIRZ =EX+0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jho1yZJdad60DJr+-- -- 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