From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCNUhGIzFRTEAbKEI=?= Subject: Re: RDMA will be reverted Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:32:58 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <20060630.023258.83835473.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> References: <20060628.000715.95062023.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org Return-path: Received: from yue.linux-ipv6.org ([203.178.140.15]:11788 "EHLO yue.st-paulia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751085AbWF2Rb6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:31:58 -0400 To: rdreier@cisco.com In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hello. In article (at Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:54:37 -0700), Roland Dreier says: > David> Roland, there is no way in the world we would have let > David> support for RDMA into the kernel tree had we seen and > David> reviewed it on netdev. I've discussed this with Andrew > David> Morton, and we'd like you to please revert all of the RDMA > David> code from Linus's tree immedialtely. > > David> Folks are well aware how against RDMA and TOE type schemes > David> the Linux networking developers are. So the fact that none > David> of these RDMA changes went up for review on netdev strikes > David> me as just a little bit more than suspicious. > > [I'm really on paternity leave, but this was brought to my attention > and seems important enough to respond to] > > Dave, you're going to have to be more specific. What do you mean by > RDMA? The whole drivers/infiniband infrastructure, which handles RDMA > over IB, has been upstream for a year and a half, and was in fact > originally merged by you, so I'm guessing that's not what you mean. NET_DMA things. --yoshfuji