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

From: Tillier, Fabian
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 17:03:56 EST


That is absolutely correct. In addition to portability between kernel
versions and operating systems, there is also portability between
user-mode and kernel-mode within a single release.

- Fab

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From: Chris Friesen [mailto:cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 1:57 PM
To: Greg KH
Cc: Tillier, Fabian; Randy.Dunlap; sean.hefty@xxxxxxxxx;
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; hozer@xxxxxxxxx; woody@xxxxxxxxxxxx;
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Subject: Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in
theLinux kernel

Greg KH wrote:

> Basically, what is lacking in the current kernel locks that the
> infiniband project has to have in order to work properly. We can work
> from there.

I think their point is that they want the core device driver code to be
portable across kernel versions, and across different OS's other than
linux--which basically requires some kind of abstraction layer.

Chris

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