On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 03:13:47PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Mike Heinz <michael.he...@qlogic.com> wrote: > > The biggest problem with that is that patching existing boot scripts > > is always going to vary from distro to distro and is always going to > > have problems when dealing with files that were already edited for > > site-specific reasons. > > This is the wrong way to look at it. Really it would make sense in > the long term to add required support to native distros -- piling hack > on hack in OFED is clearly a long-term disaster. So I don't think > saying "it's hard to make a single RPM" is a very good argument.
Indeed, considering that OFEDs entire purpose is to manage packaging IB stuff for distributions this doesn't seem like a good argument.. Nor do I think OFED should even try to have one RPM for all distros, good packaging isn't like that. > In this case I do think it makes sense to add this support to the > kernel, since the kernel handling is so simple. In fact based on > Jack's question it might make sense to go further and have more > flexible expansion... what if we do something like adding primitive > format expansion, ie Doing it in userspace makes generating the node description changed trap simpler? What about other drivers? I didn't see ehca in Mike's patch.. I just wonder if this is a big pain to do right, what about charsets, IDN, and ugly details like that? Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
