Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269251AbUJWAEF (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:04:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269280AbUJWACE (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:02:04 -0400 Received: from mail.scl.ameslab.gov ([147.155.137.19]:18126 "EHLO mail.scl.ameslab.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269298AbUJWAAT (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:00:19 -0400 Message-ID: <41799EEF.8060902@scl.ameslab.gov> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:59:43 -0500 From: Troy Benjegerdes User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040918) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Dreier CC: Francois Romieu , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [openib-general] InfiniBand incompatible with the Linux kernel? References: <20041008202247.GA9653@kroah.com> <528yagn63x.fsf@topspin.com> <20041009115028.GA14571@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <52oejbliuk.fsf@topspin.com> In-Reply-To: <52oejbliuk.fsf@topspin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1327 Lines: 38 Well, fortunately this has turned out to be a non-issue. I just went to www.infinibandta.org and the 1.2 spec is available for download. http://www.infinibandta.org/specs/register/publicspec/vol1r1_2.zip http://www.infinibandta.org/specs/register/publicspec/vol2r1_2.zip Roland Dreier wrote: > Roland> it's orthogonal to any IP issues. Since the Linux kernel > Roland> contains a lot of code written to specs available only > Roland> under NDA (and even reverse-engineered code where specs > Roland> are completely unavailable), I don't think the expense > Roland> should be an issue. > > Francois> One can say good bye to peer review. > >Yes and no. Certainly people without specs can't review spec >compliance, but review for coding style, locking bugs, etc. is if >anything more valuable. > >Thanks, > Roland >_______________________________________________ >openib-general mailing list >openib-general@openib.org >http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > >To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/