From: Troy Benjegerdes <troy@scl.ameslab.gov>
To: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [openib-general] InfiniBand incompatible with the Linux kernel?
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:59:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41799EEF.8060902@scl.ameslab.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52oejbliuk.fsf@topspin.com>
Well, fortunately this has turned out to be a non-issue.
I just went to www.infinibandta.org and the 1.2 spec is available for
download.
http://www.infinibandta.org/specs/register/publicspec/vol1r1_2.zip
http://www.infinibandta.org/specs/register/publicspec/vol2r1_2.zip
Roland Dreier wrote:
> Roland> it's orthogonal to any IP issues. Since the Linux kernel
> Roland> contains a lot of code written to specs available only
> Roland> under NDA (and even reverse-engineered code where specs
> Roland> are completely unavailable), I don't think the expense
> Roland> should be an issue.
>
> Francois> One can say good bye to peer review.
>
>Yes and no. Certainly people without specs can't review spec
>compliance, but review for coding style, locking bugs, etc. is if
>anything more valuable.
>
>Thanks,
> Roland
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-23 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-08 20:22 InfiniBand incompatible with the Linux kernel? Greg KH
2004-10-08 20:38 ` [openib-general] " Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-08 22:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-10-08 23:13 ` Greg KH
2004-10-08 23:24 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-08 23:26 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-08 23:29 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-08 23:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-08 23:27 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-08 23:34 ` Greg KH
2004-10-09 3:40 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-09 0:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-09 3:09 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-09 4:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-09 21:11 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-10 19:05 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-10 20:33 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-09 11:50 ` Francois Romieu
2004-10-09 20:47 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-22 23:59 ` Troy Benjegerdes [this message]
[not found] ` <6.1.2.0.2.20041008152933.01f671a8@esmail.cup.hp.com>
2004-10-11 18:27 ` Ronald G. Minnich
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