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

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Message-ID: <1494081623.3228.1.camel@sandisk.com>
Date:   Sat, 6 May 2017 14:40:24 +0000
From:   Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@...disk.com>
To:     "jiri@...nulli.us" <jiri@...nulli.us>
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

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
instead of pointless. BTW, can you explain why you are using an e-mail address
that is hiding that you are a Mellanox employee?

Bart.