From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266571AbUBESJ6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:09:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266572AbUBESJ6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:09:58 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:15066 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266571AbUBESJ4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:09:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:09:32 -0800 From: Greg KH To: "Hefty, Sean" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Troy Benjegerdes , "Woodruff, Robert J" , "Magro, Bill" , "Woodruff, Robert J" , infiniband-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in the linux kernel Message-ID: <20040205180932.GE13075@kroah.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:01:13AM -0800, Hefty, Sean wrote: > As an FYI, the code is available for download on bitkeeper at > http://infiniband.bkbits.net/iba. We're still working on providing a > tarball and patch for 2.6, but if you would like to see the code now, it > is available. Oh, I've seen that code, and still feel ill after looking at some of it... Come on, implementing your own spinlocks (and getting it wrong) and atomit_t? Why in the world would you _ever_ want to do that. That code needs a _lot_ of cleanup to make it into the kernel tree. Good luck, greg k-h