On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 14:00 -0800, Ryan, Jim wrote: > Sean, I think that's a good point. What it suggests to me is asking when > someone proposes a "non-standard" feature, what process, procedures, > documentation, support, etc. if any, should be made available by the entity > making the proposal? > > It seems to me asking the same questions of all proposed features is fair and > reasonable, and shouldn't represent an unreasonable barrier to progress. > > Thoughts? If this already exists, it's my ignorance and I will apologize in > advance > > Thanks again, Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: ewg-boun...@lists.openfabrics.org > [mailto:ewg-boun...@lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Sean Hefty > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:54 PM > To: 'Tziporet Koren'; ewg@lists.openfabrics.org > Cc: gene...@lists.openfabrics.org > Subject: [ewg] RE: OFED Jan 5, 2009 meeting minutes on OFED plans > > >* Mellanox suggested to add IB over Eth - this is similar to iWARP but > >more like IB (e.g. including UD), and can work over ConnectX. > >A concern was raised by Intel (Dave Sommers) since it is not a standard > >transport. > >Decision: This request will be raised in the MWG, and they should decide > >if OFA can support it. > > Just is just my opinion, but in the past, OFED has included non-standard > features, like extended connected mode, that are still not part of the IBTA > spec. > > Do we know if such a feature would be accepted into the Linux kernel? I think > OFED should base their decision more on the answer to that question than IBTA > approval.
FWIW, this is the question I ask before accepting OFED kernel patches into our kernel. With the exception of SDP (which was intentionally allowed) and qlgc_vnic (which was unintentionally allowed), if it's not either in the upstream linux kernel, or slated for inclusion, then I don't include it in our kernel. Hence why xrc and rds support still isn't in our products. -- Doug Ledford <dledf...@redhat.com> GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 http://people.redhat.com/dledford Infiniband specific RPMs available at http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband
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