On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 03:27:29PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 14:16 -0500, Jon Mason wrote: > > > > The OFED NFS implementation > > *optionally* > > > replaces the in-kernel version. > > If one desires that. > > > So it will > > be the version being used. > > Per above, only if you selected to build/install it. > > > Why would you not want this to be the > > case? > > Because we are trying to minimize our responsibility for kernel > deviation (and hence bugs) from the vendor's distributed kernel. > > OFED is an integral component of our software, so we are willing to take > on the responsibility for that deviation. NFS[RDMA] is not integral to > our software, so we'd just as soon let the customer use what they would > be using with the vendor's stock kernel if they want to use NFS.
Just tell them that NFSRMDA is NOT optional ;-) Creating a seperate package can be quite harry and will eat a large chunk of time. I think it would be much easier to have some compile time checkes, for example #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_FS around all the NFS specific functions/headers. Does that sound plausable/reasonable? > > b. > > _______________________________________________ > ewg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
