On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Jason Gunthorpe
<jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com> wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, note that Lustre is under staging for a while, not sure how
close they are for actual acceptance.

Or.
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