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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Tillier, Fabian" <ftillier@infiniconsys.com>,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
	sean.hefty@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	hozer@hozed.org, woody@co.intel.com, bill.magro@intel.com,
	woody@jf.intel.com, infiniband-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in theLinux kernel
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 16:56:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4022BC22.9000803@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040205212703.GA15718@kroah.com

Greg KH wrote:

> Basically, what is lacking in the current kernel locks that the
> infiniband project has to have in order to work properly.  We can work
> from there.

I think their point is that they want the core device driver code to be 
portable across kernel versions, and across different OS's other than 
linux--which basically requires some kind of abstraction layer.

Chris

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-05 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-05 20:32 [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in theLinux kernel Tillier, Fabian
2004-02-05 21:27 ` Greg KH
2004-02-05 21:56   ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-02-06 20:22 ` Bill Davidsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-24 17:55 Woodruff, Robert J
2004-02-24 18:03 ` Greg KH
     [not found] <mailman.1076018705.12618.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2004-02-09  1:51 ` Pete Zaitcev
2004-02-08 23:43 Arnd Bergmann
2004-02-08 21:36 Woodruff, Robert J
2004-02-06 16:42 Hefty, Sean
2004-02-06 17:05 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-06 17:23   ` Roland Dreier
2004-02-06 18:00     ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-06 18:12       ` Måns Rullgård
2004-02-06 18:13       ` Chris Friesen
2004-02-06 18:22       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-06 18:50         ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-06 19:02           ` Matti Aarnio
2004-02-06 19:11           ` Petr Vandrovec
2004-02-07  3:05             ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-06 18:54         ` Måns Rullgård
2004-02-06 19:01     ` somenath
2004-02-06 17:27 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2004-02-06 18:51 ` Greg KH
2004-02-08  8:31   ` Fab Tillier
2004-02-08 16:29     ` Greg KH
2004-02-08 16:51       ` Fab Tillier
2004-02-09  2:55         ` Troy Benjegerdes
2004-02-09  2:57         ` Greg KH
2004-02-06  4:07 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2004-02-05 23:09 Woodruff, Robert J
2004-02-05 22:55 Woodruff, Robert J
2004-02-05 22:54 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-05 22:26 Hefty, Sean
2004-02-05 22:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-05 22:39   ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-05 23:19 ` Greg KH
2004-02-06  1:10 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2004-02-05 22:17 Tillier, Fabian
2004-02-05 22:56 ` Brian Gerst
2004-02-05 22:58 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-02-05 22:02 Tillier, Fabian
2004-02-06  1:57 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2004-02-05 19:26 Tillier, Fabian
2004-02-05 20:27 ` Greg KH

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