Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:19:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com (e35.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.133]) by oss.sgi.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j35MJpkN032547 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:19:51 -0700 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e35.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j35MJjLg568926 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:19:45 -0400 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id j35MJjWs244554 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:19:45 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j35MJibQ026809 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:19:45 -0600 Received: from imap.linux.ibm.com (imap.rtp.raleigh.ibm.com [9.42.107.100]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j35MJgAr026742; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:19:44 -0600 Received: by imap.linux.ibm.com (Postfix, from userid 48) id 7D16D7C015; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:19:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sig-9-65-39-90.mts.ibm.com (sig-9-65-39-90.mts.ibm.com [9.65.39.90]) by imap.rtp.raleigh.ibm.com (IMP) with HTTP for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:19:40 -0400 Message-ID: <1112739580.42530efce23ff@imap.linux.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:19:40 -0400 From: jaganav@us.ibm.com To: Rik van Riel Cc: Greg KH , Stephen Hemminger , Roland Dreier , Benjamin LaHaise , Dmitry Yusupov , open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, "David S. Miller" , mpm@selenic.com, andrea@suse.de, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, ksummit-2005-discuss@thunk.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, bmt@zurich.ibm.com Subject: Re: Linux support for RDMA (was: [Ksummit-2005-discuss] Summary of 2005 Kernel Summit Proposed Topics) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.7 X-Originating-IP: 9.65.39.90 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.83/808/Tue Apr 5 02:54:46 2005 on oss.sgi.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-archive-position: 1459 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: jaganav@us.ibm.com Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev Quoting Rik van Riel : > On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 jaganav@us.ibm.com wrote: > > > If this dual license is a concern to other kernel developers as well > > from contributing to OpenRDMA, we would seriously consider this and > > discuss with the adapter vendors. > > It could be a problem when trying to reuse existing > GPL code, eg. to hook into locking mechanisms. It > could also be a problem if you touch data structures > that are protected by RCU. Right, this could be one of the significant porting issues but it may become a real concern. Thanks. Thanks Venkat