On 7/9/19 4:17 AM, Greg KH wrote: > So if these developers are willing to do the work to get something out > of staging, and into the "real" part of the kernel, I will gladly take > it. Linus once famously said "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". There are already two block-over-RDMA driver pairs upstream (NVMeOF and SRP). Accepting the IBTRS and IBNBD drivers upstream would reduce the number of users of the upstream block-over-RDMA drivers and hence would fragment the block-over-RDMA driver user base further. Additionally, I'm not yet convinced that the interesting parts of IBNBD cannot be integrated into the existing upstream drivers. So it's not clear to me whether taking the IBTRS and IBNBD drivers upstream would help the Linux user community. Bart.
