Karl, The signatures differences I mentioned are API changes for some functions, like dapl_lmr_create, and dapl_rmr_bind. Thanks,
Arkady Kanevsky email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Appliance Inc. phone: 781-768-5395 1601 Trapelo Rd. - Suite 16. Fax: 781-895-1195 Waltham, MA 02451 central phone: 781-768-5300 > -----Original Message----- > From: Karl Feind [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:50 AM > To: Kanevsky, Arkady > Cc: Arlin Davis; Karl Feind; Brian Forbes; Edward > Mascarenhas; Jeff Hanson; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: on the coexistance of uDAPLs > > > I don't think I understand what the "signature differences" are. > My feeling is that libdat and the DAPL infrastructure should > be as independent of the individual DAPL layers as possible. > If some DAPL layers with protocol version 1.2 are installed > on the same system as other DAPL layers with protocol 2.0, > the best case would be for the DAPL infrastructure (libdat > and /etc/dat.conf) to allow this. > > Karl Feind > SGI > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:59:07PM -0400, Kanevsky, Arkady wrote: > > There are some signature differences between versions. > > Since redirection exposes signatures it is not trivial for a single > > redirection to support different signatures. > > Is this really needed? > > Thanks, > > > > Arkady Kanevsky email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Network Appliance Inc. phone: 781-768-5395 > > 1601 Trapelo Rd. - Suite 16. Fax: 781-895-1195 > > Waltham, MA 02451 central phone: 781-768-5300 > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Arlin Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 3:37 PM > > > To: Karl Feind > > > Cc: Brian Forbes; Edward Mascarenhas; Jeff Hanson; > > > [email protected] > > > Subject: [ofa-general] Re: on the coexistance of uDAPLs > > > > > > Karl Feind wrote: > > > > > > >>comments? other suggestions? > > > >> > > > >>-arlin > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > >I'd really like to see a separate RPM (called something like > > > >dapl-infra) that installs: > > > > > > > > 1) /etc/dat.conf (empty) > > > > 2) a script that addes a provider to /etc/data.conf > > > > 3) a script that removes a provider from /etc/data.conf > > > > 4) libdat.so > > > > > > > >Any DAPL layer depends on this RPM, and invokes the scripts > > > (2) and (3) > > > >in the preinstall and postuninstall setep. > > > > > > > >This decouples the DAPL infrastructure from the DAPL > instantiations. > > > > > > > >Just an idea. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Do you see the need for different versions to co-exist (1.1, 1.2, > > > 2.0)? > > > _______________________________________________ > > > general mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general > > > > > > To unsubscribe, please visit > > > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > > > > _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
