-----Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: ----- >To: Bernard Metzler <BMT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> >Date: 02/02/2018 07:57PM >Cc: Steve Wise <swise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, >linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Request for Comments on SoftiWarp > >On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 02:37:52PM +0000, Bernard Metzler wrote: > >> I added libsiw to the current (as of today) rmda-core bundle >> as found at >https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_linux >-2Drdma_rdma-2Dcore.git&d=DwIBAg&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=2TaYXQ0T- >r8ZO1PP1alNwU_QJcRRLfmYTAgd3QCvqSc&m=UyHYNdR3HpzdZu5UEC-C3m-y2oY_mSux >ocEezYKO-Sw&s=_1Odt9orPiTCNcrPz9U1gEwckeRc4RoeUwPsvPogtCI&e=, see > >Can you use the standard OFA license please? IBM is an OFA member and >is behloden to the membership agreement requring the common dual >license. > sorry to see that. What's exactly wrong with the current (dual) license statement from IBM? I checked several other user libs. All come with some flavor of a dual BSD/GPLv2 license statement as this one, as far as I can see. >> It enables user level clients for the siw driver. Let me >> know if we need a patch for user land as well for now. >> I don't want to spam the list. > >We will eventually.. > >+static const struct verbs_match_ent rnic_table[] = { >+ VERBS_NAME_MATCH("siw", NULL), >+ {}, >+}; > >I really don't want to add more VERBS_NAME_MATCH, but I don't have an >alternative ready right now :( > Hmm, I blindly followed what others did. This is different from what libsiw had until now (doing its own sys entries reading/pattern matching). I hope I did it right? In any case, I hope this current approach allows for co-existence of user libs from different vendors if heterogeneous hardware is in use. Thanks very much! Bernard. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
