Re: [RFC iproute2 0/8] RDMA tool

Jiri Pirko
2017-05-07T21:37:59Z

Sat, May 06, 2017 at 04:40:24PM CEST, Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com 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

I think that was just complete misunderstanding about what iproute2 is.

>instead of pointless. BTW, can you explain why you are using an e-mail address
>that is hiding that you are a Mellanox employee?

Who sais I have to do that? This is funny...