Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver | From | Roland Dreier <> | Date | Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:28:29 -0800 |
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Bryan> It does when our OpenIB driver is being used. But our Bryan> lower level driver is independent of OpenIB (and is often Bryan> used without the infiniband stuff even configured into the Bryan> kernel), and needs to provide some way for a userspace Bryan> subnet management agent to send and receive packets.
Isn't there some way you can use the same SMA (subnet management agent) interface in all the cases? Can ipath_mad.c just go away in favor of your userspace SMA?
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