Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Feb 2004 16:56:50 -0500 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in theLinux kernel |
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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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