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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:28:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adasls34r9e.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1136321691.10862.61.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Bryan O'Sullivan's message of "Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:54:50 -0800")

    Bryan> It does when our OpenIB driver is being used.  But our
    Bryan> lower level driver is independent of OpenIB (and is often
    Bryan> used without the infiniband stuff even configured into the
    Bryan> kernel), and needs to provide some way for a userspace
    Bryan> subnet management agent to send and receive packets.

Isn't there some way you can use the same SMA (subnet management
agent) interface in all the cases?  Can ipath_mad.c just go away in
favor of your userspace SMA?

 - R.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-04 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-29  0:31 [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 1 of 20] Introduce __memcpy_toio32 Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 2 of 20] memcpy32 for x86_64 Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 3 of 20] Add memcpy_toio32 to each arch Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 4 of 20] Define BITS_PER_BYTE Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 5 of 20] ipath - driver core header files Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  8:18   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-29 14:15     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 6 of 20] ipath - driver debugging headers Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  8:22   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 7 of 20] ipath - MMIO copy routines Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 8 of 20] ipath - core driver, part 1 of 4 Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-30  8:39   ` Greg KH
2005-12-30 23:47     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-31  0:12       ` Greg KH
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 9 of 20] ipath - core driver, part 2 " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - core driver, part 3 " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-30 18:46   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-30 23:50     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-31  8:36       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 11 of 20] ipath - core driver, part 4 " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  2:19   ` [openib-general] " Roland Dreier
2005-12-29 14:21     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-30  8:12   ` Greg KH
2005-12-30 23:17     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-31  0:08       ` Greg KH
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 12 of 20] ipath - misc driver support code Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-30  8:25   ` Greg KH
2005-12-30 23:10     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-31  0:13       ` Greg KH
2005-12-30 18:15   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 13 of 20] ipath - routines used by upper layer driver code Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 14 of 20] ipath - infiniband verbs header Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  8:21   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-29 14:22     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 15 of 20] ipath - infiniband verbs support, part 1 of 3 Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 16 of 20] path - infiniband verbs support, part 2 " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 17 of 20] ipath - infiniband verbs support, part 3 " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 19:24   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-30  3:19     ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 18 of 20] ipath - infiniband management datagram support Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 19 of 20] ipath - kbuild infrastructure Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29  0:31 ` [PATCH 20 of 20] ipath - integrate driver into infiniband " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 19:01 ` [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver Horst von Brand
2005-12-29 19:26   ` Lee Revell
2005-12-31  5:36     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-02 16:05     ` Horst von Brand
2006-01-02 16:22       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-30  3:17   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-30  8:00 ` Greg KH
2005-12-30 23:11   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-31  0:10     ` Greg KH
2005-12-31  1:40       ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-02 20:35         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-02 22:22           ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-04 21:26           ` Roland Dreier
2006-01-05 15:28             ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-03 17:27         ` Greg KH
2006-01-03 20:54           ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-03 20:57             ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-03 21:24               ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-03 21:26                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-04  3:33                   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-04 21:28             ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-01-05 15:31               ` [openib-general] " Bryan O'Sullivan

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