On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 08:51:22AM -0500, Steve Wise wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Do we want to create rdma-tools after this task will be > > > > > > > completed? For > > > > > example > > > > > > > with debug and performance tools in it. > > > > > > > > > > > > Prolification of repositories is exactly what this is intended to > > > > > > prevent :( > > > > > > > > > > The goal would be to move all the tools/cmds/etc into one repo. How > > > > > is that prolification? > > > > > > > > I guess I should wait and see what could end up in there before > > > > commenting... > > > > > > > > > > I think we should shelf this discussion until we get our current project > done... > > > > > > But... :) > > > > > > A quick gander at the OFED packages produces this list of possible > > > candidates: > > > > > > dapl (perhaps dapl should be in rdma-plumbing?) fabtests ibacm ibpd ibsim > > > ibutils infiniband-diags infinipath-psm mstflint opensm perftest qlvnictools > > > qperf rds-tools > > > > I strongly suggest against adding anything that is not a library and even then > I like > > what Jason has said previously. "This is a library targeted for kernel APIs." > So, for > > example, libibmad was not included. In fact architecturally I think ibmad > should go > > away somehow. The main user is infiniband-diags but there are some other > users > > of it so I have not been able to deprecate it. > > > > I guess my opinion is I don't want to see this repo become "OFED" in a > different > > form. There are valid reasons to have separate packages. It is really the > support > > libraries which have been a pain. > > This discussion where I've listed possible inclusions is for a rdma-tools > uber-repo, not the current plumbing repo (aka rdma-user). > > However, I'm beginning to think there really is no need for an rdma-tools repo. > one benefit for having an rdma-user is to make it easy to do API changes and > global changes to all provider libs. For the rdma-tools and other packages that > use RDMA, that will probably never be needed. > > Ok, this time I'm really done discussing an rdma-tools for now. :) I talked about rdma-tools.git only and failed to understand why people started to add tools to rdma-user.git, which is better to be called rdma-iibs.git. Let's stop this discussion till better times. > > Steve. >
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