Re: [RFCv2 00/15] RFCv2: Consolidated userspace RDMA library repo

[Leon Romanovsky <leonro-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

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On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 09:04:36PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 09/15/2016 06:44 PM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> >And what is exactly srptools? From the name, it looks like good
> >candidate for rdma-tools.git, but it is in rdma-user.git noa.
>
> Does this mean that you don't know how SRP login works?

Yes, I had no idea about it.

> An SRP initiator
> logs in to an SRP target if a login string is written into the add_target
> sysfs attribute. Although it is possible to look up the proper login string
> on the target system and to issue the login manually, most SRP users run
> srp_daemon on the initiator system. srp_daemon is a daemon that runs on SRP
> initiator systems, that discovers SRP target systems and that logs in to
> these target systems if allowed by /etc/srp_daemon.conf. I expect that all
> SRP users will install the rdma-user package and that not all of them will
> need the rdma-tools package. So for SRP users it will be convenient to
> include srptools in the rdma-user package.

OK,
It makes sense to leave it in rdma-user.

Thanks for the explanation.

>
> Bart.

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