From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Pirko Subject: Re: [RFC iproute2 0/8] RDMA tool Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 12:20:46 +0200 Message-ID: <20170507102046.GA1889@nanopsycho.orion> References: <20170504180216.7665-1-leon@kernel.org> <1493921453.2692.6.camel@sandisk.com> <20170506104047.GC2017@nanopsycho> <1494081623.3228.1.camel@sandisk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1494081623.3228.1.camel@sandisk.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bart Van Assche Cc: "leonro@mellanox.com" , "jiri@mellanox.com" , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , "ram.amrani@cavium.com" , "sagi@grimberg.me" , "ogerlitz@mellanox.com" , "dennis.dalessandro@intel.com" , "hch@lst.de" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "leon@kernel.org" , "stephen@networkplumber.org" , "dledford@redhat.com" , "jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com" , "ariela@mellanox.com" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Sat, May 06, 2017 at 04:40:24PM CEST, Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com wrote: >On Sat, 2017-05-06 at 12:40 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> 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. >> > >> > 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... > >I asked for a clarification that should have been in the cover letter but that >was missing from that cover letter. So I think that was the right thing to do I think that was just complete misunderstanding about what iproute2 is. >instead of pointless. BTW, can you explain why you are using an e-mail address >that is hiding that you are a Mellanox employee? Who sais I have to do that? This is funny...