netdev - Re: [RFC iproute2 0/8] RDMA tool

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Date:   Sun, 7 May 2017 12:20:46 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@...disk.com>
Cc:     "leonro@...lanox.com" <leonro@...lanox.com>,
        "jiri@...lanox.com" <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "ram.amrani@...ium.com" <ram.amrani@...ium.com>,
        "sagi@...mberg.me" <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        "ogerlitz@...lanox.com" <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
        "dennis.dalessandro@...el.com" <dennis.dalessandro@...el.com>,
        "hch@....de" <hch@....de>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "leon@...nel.org" <leon@...nel.org>,
        "stephen@...workplumber.org" <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        "dledford@...hat.com" <dledford@...hat.com>,
        "jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com" <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
        "ariela@...lanox.com" <ariela@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC iproute2 0/8] RDMA tool

Sat, May 06, 2017 at 04:40:24PM CEST, Bart.VanAssche@...disk.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@...disk.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...