On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:24:35PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 17:53 -0700, Tom Talpey wrote:

> Having some of it refer to things as IBOE and some as ROCE would be
> similarly confusing, and switching existing IBOE usage to ROCE would
> cause pain to people with out of tree drivers (Lustre is the main one I
> know of).  There's not a good answer here.  There's only less sucky
> ones.

The tide has already turned, we should ditch iboe:

$git grep -i roce_ drivers/infiniband/ | wc -l
91
$git grep -i iboe_ drivers/infiniband/ | wc -l
37

It isn't really mainline's role to be too concerned about out of tree
things like Lustre.

Jason
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