> On Oct 10, Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suggest the name "rdma" for the group name because these device > > nodes give userspace programs access to RDMA capabilities from > > InfiniBand and (someday) iWARP hardware.
> > Of course, this requires the creation of the rdma group. I'm not sure > > where or how this sort of group is managed, so please let me know if > > there's any other avenues I should be sending this request to. > If you are sure that a new, dedicated group is needed then it should > probably be created by the package providing the user space InfiniBand > programs, but I cannot find them in Debian. Have they been packaged? I have issued an ITP but I am still working through some review comments on the libibverbs package. However it seems strange to me for the "rdma" group to be created by installing a separate package. What will udev do with a GROUP rule if the libibverbs package is not installed? How will a user realize they need libibverbs installed to get the right ownership of the /dev files? Are there other debian packages that create groups as part of their install? > If they have not then I think I would add a GROUP directive only for an > estabilished group name, because I do not think that I should be the one > setting the standard. Did you check what other distributions are using? I don't think any other distributions have rules to create these devices yet. I have opened a similar bug with Fedora but there's no definitive response yet. -- Thanks, Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
