From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/19] RPCRDMA: Kconfig and header file with rpcrdma protocol definitions Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:25:50 -0400 Message-ID: <1190323550.6763.157.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> References: <1190321705.6763.140.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <1190322784.6763.147.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net To: "Talpey, Thomas" Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IYTX4-0002v2-Jc for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:25:58 -0700 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.10.15]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1IYTX5-0007OR-K3 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:26:02 -0700 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 17:18 -0400, Talpey, Thomas wrote: > One reason to prefer "select" is that the option will disappear if > it "depends on" and INFINIBAND isn't turned on. That's not the > way RPC over sockets transports is visible. For example, if TCP is > off you still get SUNRPC. Not really. If networking isn't defined, then it disappears. I'd think that it would be fairly obvious to most people that if they want to see an option to use NFS over RDMA, then they also have to select an RDMA-capable transport. Trond ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs