Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751252AbWC2XaR (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:30:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751271AbWC2XaR (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:30:17 -0500 Received: from mx.pathscale.com ([64.160.42.68]:13513 "EHLO mx.pathscale.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751252AbWC2XaP (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:30:15 -0500 Subject: Re: [openib-general] InfiniBand 2.6.17 merge plans From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" To: Roland Dreier Cc: openib-general@openib.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: PathScale, Inc. Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:30:14 -0800 Message-Id: <1143675014.5238.1.camel@chalcedony.internal.keyresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.0 (2.6.0-1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1136 Lines: 31 On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 11:56 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > * PathScale ipath driver. In my git tree at > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git ipath > > There is still ia64 build breakage and a lot of sparse endian > annotations to clean up before it's mergeable. These are all fixed now. > - Working around the IB midlayer SMA (subnet management agent) / > implementation with a character device when ib_mad isn't loaded. We dropped this in the round of changes I just submitted. > - The driver depends on 64BIT && PCI_MSI, and is basically > x86_64-only for practical purposes. I think this is OK as far as > a merge goes, but it would be nice to be able to use a PCIe > device on any system with PCIe slots... We'll see what we can do about this at some point, but I don't think it should block the merge.