From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758197AbYDBQTS (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:19:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755291AbYDBQTG (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:19:06 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:48596 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754969AbYDBQTD (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:19:03 -0400 Message-ID: <47F3BFEC.1000400@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:18:36 -0500 From: Richard Frank User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Dreier CC: Shirley Ma , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org, rds-devel@oss.oracle.com Subject: Re: [ofa-general] InfiniBand/iWARP/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.26 (what's in infiniband.git) References: <1207120932.4593.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> <47F3BE33.4000204@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Yes, I see this is for pushing RDS upstream - but what about running RDS as is over IWARP NICs - that should just work right ? Roland Dreier wrote: > > What is the work we need to do here - I was thinking RDS should just work ? > > Stuff doesn't get merged into the kernel on its own. If you want RDS > upstream then the first step is to post patches in a form suitable for > reviewing. Then respond to the review comments. > > The files Documentation/SubmittingPatches and to some extent > Documentation/SubmittingDrivers in the kernel source have more info. > > - R. >