Re: [RFC iproute2 0/8] RDMA tool

Leon Romanovsky
2017-05-07T21:46:30Z

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On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 02:40:24PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-05-06 at 12:40 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> > Thu, May 04, 2017 at 08:10:54PM CEST, Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 21:02 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > Following our discussion both in mailing list [1] and at the LPC 2016 [2],
> > > > we would like to propose this RDMA tool to be part of iproute2 package
> > > > and finally improve this situation.
> > >
> > > Although I really appreciate your work: can you clarify why you would like to
> > > add *RDMA* functionality to an *IP routing* tool? I haven't found any motivation
> > > for adding RDMA functionality to iproute2 in [1].
> >
> > Bart, please realize that iproute2 is much more than "*IP routing* tool".
> > I understand you got confused by the name. Please see sources. Your comment
> > is totally pointless...
>
> I asked for a clarification that should have been in the cover letter but that
> was missing from that cover letter. So I think that was the right thing to do
> instead of pointless. BTW, can you explain why you are using an e-mail address
> that is hiding that you are a Mellanox employee?

For the same reason as I do. It is much easier to use outside servers
than Mellanox's IT infrastructure.

Right now, I'm speaking for myself, but for me, to properly answer with @mellanox.com,
I need to use very specific mail setup, while for any other addresses I can and use any
sane setup, including mobile application.

>
> Bart.

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