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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [RFC iproute2 0/8] RDMA tool
Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 12:40:47 +0200
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Thu, May 04, 2017 at 08:10:54PM CEST, Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com wrote:
>On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 21:02 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>> Following our discussion both in mailing list [1] and at the LPC 2016 [2],
>> we would like to propose this RDMA tool to be part of iproute2 package
>> and finally improve this situation.
>
>Hello Leon,
>
>Although I really appreciate your work: can you clarify why you would like to
>add *RDMA* functionality to an *IP routing* tool? I haven't found any motivation
>for adding RDMA functionality to iproute2 in [1].

Bart, please realize that iproute2 is much more than "*IP routing* tool".
I understand you got confused by the name. Please see sources. Your comment
is totally pointless...