On 9/6/07, Sasha Khapyorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18:24 Thu 06 Sep , Sasha Khapyorsky wrote: > > Hi Vlad, > > > > On 15:25 Thu 06 Sep , Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Sasha Khapyorsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:23 PM > > > > To: OpenIB > > > > Cc: Hal Rosenstock; Ira Weiny; Eitan Zahavi; Sean Hefty; Dotan Barak; > > > > Vladimir Sokolovsky > > > > Subject: management/libibcommon > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > Currently we have libibcommon library under OFA management project. > > > > Partially it is used by libibumad and partially by libibmad and > > > > infiniband-diags. The used things look pretty separate so I'm thinking > > > > to strip libibcommon as whole library and its components over > > > libibumad > > > > and libibmad - this will remove extra dependency for libibumad. > > > > > > > > Anybody else (except management) uses libibcommon? Any comments, > > > > objections? > > > > > > > > Sasha > > > > > > Hi Sasha, > > > AFAIK, mvapich, srptools and ibutils use libibcommon. > > > > ibutils uses -libcommon for linking only because it is required by > > libibumad. > > srptools uses libibcommon directly, but mostly things which I wanted > > to merge into libibumad, so should not be big problem there. > > Didn't check mvapich yet. > > Hmm, > > find mvapich-gen2 -type f | xargs egrep 'ibcommon|ibmad|ibumad' > > returns nothing. I'm not sure that mvapich can be affected. Do you know > something about how/where libibcommon is used in mvapich?
Not sure about mvapich2 but I think it is the same as mvapich in this regard. I think it uses libibumad via the SA client vendor API (similar to osmtest in that regard). -- Hal > > Sasha > > > > > > In any case if you are going to remove libibcommon, then ofabuild and > > > ofed_1_3_scripts should be updated as well. > > > I will be in vacation from 10 Sep 2007 till 2 Oct 2007. Please update > > > Tziporet Koren and Michael Tsirkin with your decisions. > > > > Anyway since libibcommon elimination touches couple of projects and > > requires changes in ofed scripts I think it is not a great idea to do > > it in last days before OFED-1.3 feature freeze. I will wait for > > OFED-1.3 split. > > > > Sasha > _______________________________________________ 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
