From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F06C5ACCC for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 15:17:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5612220869 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2018 15:17:08 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 5612220869 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=intel.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728287AbeJRXSe (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2018 19:18:34 -0400 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([192.55.52.115]:61150 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727370AbeJRXSe (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2018 19:18:34 -0400 X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 18 Oct 2018 08:17:06 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.54,396,1534834800"; d="scan'208";a="100346656" Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.0.102]) ([10.10.37.145]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 18 Oct 2018 08:17:05 -0700 Subject: Re: rdma-core doesn't install driver.h, broke libibscif From: Sudeep Dutt To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Sudeep Dutt , "Woodruff, Robert J" , james harvey , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , Nikhil Rao , Ashutosh Dixit , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20181017085453.GA30496@infradead.org> References: <20181017085453.GA30496@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 08:10:00 -0700 Message-ID: <1539875400.18931.450.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 (2.28.3-30.el6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 01:54 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 05:53:44PM +0000, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: > > James Harvey wrote, > > > > >Short: Is libibscif dead, and should OS repositories remove it? > > > > Libibscif is for an old product, Intel's KNC, that is no longer sold and the S/W is frozen. The open source libibscif is no longer maintained. > > It has already been removed from the latest community OFED distribution. The individual package on the OFA downloads is for archive purposed only. > > Does this mean we can kill the kernel scif code as well? The MIC COSM drivers are using the kernel SCIF code. These drivers have been upstream since 2015 and we are not sure who is using them. Our preference will be to keep these drivers in the kernel for now. Thanks, Sudeep Dutt