RE: PATCH - InfiniBand Access Layer (IBAL)

From: Woodruff, Robert J (woody_at_co.intel.com)
Date: 03/13/04

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To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>, "Sam Ravnborg" <sam@ravnborg.org>, "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>

    On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:

    >Oh, I agree that _reviewing_ code is good, together with feedback
    >on what would improve its chances of getting accepted later on.
    >But it should be clear that regardless,
    >we don't add features that nobody
    >can sanely test and where hardware isn't available.
    >
    > Linus

    Just wanted to give an update on where we are with the InfiniBand IBAL.

    After we submitted the IBAL code for review, there has been additional
    InfiniBand code put into open source by the major InfiniBand companies,
    namely TopSpin, Mellanox, InfiniCon, and Voltaire.
    This presents somewhat of a problem because now there are multiple
    versions of the various InfiniBand S/W components, Access Layers, and
    ULPs.

    We now need to review all this code and
    determine which code is best to use as a basis for something that
    we would eventually try to get into Linux. We hope that people in the
    linux community will help us sort through this mess and come up with
    a "best of breed" stack out of all the available code.

    The Mellanox and Topspin folks along with some people from some of
    the national labs are trying to start up a website called openib.org,
    with data bases, email lists, etc. where people can submit code for
    this "best of breed" stack and discuss it. As long as it is truly
    open, the linux community is allowed to participate, and the code
    is evaluated on it's technical merits, rather than one companies
    personal
    agenda, this forum might serve as a way for us to sort through this
    without
    taking every issue to lkml.

    What are your thoughts on how we should proceed ?

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