On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 14:25 -0700, Caitlin Bestler wrote: > One of the strengths of dapltest is that it allows peer-to-peer > testing across dissimiliar platforms. I can run a peer-to-peer > test between Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.6, or between PPC and > x86, or between Linux and BSD. > > Even more to the point, it allows peer-to-peer testing between > uDAPL clients and kDAPL clients. > > And it accomplishes all of that while still letting its linux > kernel version be a loadable kernel module with GPL licensing. > > But forking the code to rewrite it under linux kernel standards > means that it will eventually be hard to state that you are > running the same application in all of the target environments. > It will also make it hard to have the overwhelming majority of > the code be applicable to both user and kernel modes (which > Steve and James did a very admirable job of on the sourceforge > version). > > Making a Linux native DAPL is one thing, but there are reasons > for dapltest code to be OS neutral other than minimizing coding > and maintenance efforts.
sorry, but it will be necessary to fork kDAPL for inclusion in the Linux kernel. -tduffy
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