To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale
 InfiniPath driver
References: <patchbomb.1135816279@eng-12.pathscale.com>
	<20051230080002.GA7438@kroah.com>
	<1135984304.13318.50.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com>
	<20051231001051.GB20314@kroah.com>
	<1135993250.13318.94.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com>
	<20060103172732.GA9170@kroah.com>
	<1136321691.10862.61.camel@localhost.localdomain>
From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:28:29 -0800
In-Reply-To: <1136321691.10862.61.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Bryan
 O'Sullivan's message of "Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:54:50 -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?

 - R.
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