RE: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in the linux kernel

[Woodruff, Robert J]

If the community would like to see a 2.6 patch for just the infiniband
access layer
for starters, I don't think it would be to hard to put something
together. 

I heard from a friend of mine that 2.6 was closed to new features. 
What sayith the community on allowing additional experimental drivers
(like the
infiniband access layer) into 2.6 ? Can we still submit something or do
we
have to wait till 2.7 ?

In any case, I am sure we can put together a patch and/or a tarball and
post it
to the sourceforge infiniband web site for those who want to play with
the
infiniband code on 2.6. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Benjegerdes [mailto:hozer@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 2:37 PM
To: Woodruff, Robert J
Cc: infiniband-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in
the linux kernel


So, for starters, can you or Jerrie post a patch containing just the 2.6
infiniband access layer, Or create a new BK tree for 2.6 infiniband
stuff that uses the new 2.6 kbuild system?




On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:58:56PM -0800, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> 
> We were waiting until we had some version of the InfiniBand code 
> ported to 2.6 before asking for it to be included in the 2.6 kernel 
> tree. Jerrie made the changes
> to the IB access layer to allow it to compile on 2.6, but it cannot
yet
> be tested 
> till we get a 2.6 driver from Mellanox. 
> 
> I'd also like to hear from the linux-kernel folks on what we would 
> need to do to get a basic InfiniBand access layer included in the 2.6 
> base.
> 
> We'd also like to hear from Mellanox if they have any plans to provide

> an open source VPD driver anytime soon.
> 
> woody
> 
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