> The reason we're asking for these IBV_*_USNIC enums now -- before we've > submitted the driver -- is because we're targeting getting our driver included > in RHEL 6.5. There's a bit of a chicken-and-egg issue here: they'll accept > our > patches for a new hardware driver while that driver is being worked upstream. > But they (rightfully) won't accept patches to IB core and libibverbs until > they've been vetted by the community. Hence, even though our driver is slowly > working its way through QA and not available yet, we wanted to submit these > new > enums upstream for community approval so that they can be included in RHEL > 6.5.
I understand the issue. In the end, these are kernel changes with no actual users of those changes... But then they are also just small changes to a framework... Just thinking aloud here, but what if we added 'RDMA_NODE_VENDOR' instead? Then other fields, such as transport, become vendor specific. - Sean -- 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
