Re: OFED-4.8, rdma-core, and library paths

From: Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
To: Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung-EIkl63zCoXaH+58JC4qpiA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe
	<jgunthorpe-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	ewg-ZwoEplunGu1OwGhvXhtEPSCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: OFED-4.8, rdma-core, and library paths
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 14:32:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170209123206.GN6005@mtr-leonro.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1486634006.3632.5.camel-EIkl63zCoXaH+58JC4qpiA@public.gmane.org>

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On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:53:26AM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 08.02.2017, 13:56 -0700 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 08:54:46PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> >
> > > > Hmm. Can you update your github? I'll look for you.
> > >
> > > I pushed latest code to m/dv-1 branch, it is not for inclusion yet.
> > > https://github.com/rleon/rdma-core/commits/m/dv-v1
> > > Updated cover letter with changelog:
> > > https://github.com/rleon/rdma-core/commit/a332669511d5bbbd3dcdd977f
> > > bf95aa7ee47a69e
> > > And all cmake/packages stuff in the patch:
> > > https://github.com/rleon/rdma-core/commit/fcc4996c7fa5169fe599c2d56
> > > 8476314c1f65ddc
> >
> > This should take care of most things
> >
> > https://github.com/jgunthorpe/rdma-plumbing/commit/490b7fb184c414ab16
> > b7056f1effa9136e8afe46
> >
> > The debian packaging still needs some adjusting.
> >
> > I suspect it is against Debian policy to include libmlx.so in the
> > providers package, it probably needs to have its own package and its
> > own -dev package.
>
> When other packages should be able to link against libmlx.so and need
> header files for that, it is better to have separate binary packages
> (libmlx and libmlx-dev) for it.

This libmlx is dependent on ibverbs-provider and libibverbs. It is useless
without them and will be always installed together, so why do we need to
complicate users life by adding new library?

And we can always spin-off it as a separate package once someone will need it.

Thanks

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