[openib-general] IB: I don't like what I'm seeing.

Thu Apr 1 18:48:30 PST 2004

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:24:39AM -0500, Tillier, Fabian wrote:
> From: Andrey Slepuhin [mailto:andrey.slepuhin at t-platforms.ru]
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 12:13 AM
> 
> > I'm arguing to do a good code cleanup/audit.
> 
> Again, I think we're jumping the gun with code cleanup - the
> architecture review was totally bypassed.
> 
> > Once more please do not blame on me
> 
> No blame here, just hoping to get people to look outside of the code for
> a bit, and at the architecture of the different IB SW stacks.  They are
> not all created equal - not from an implementation nor from an
> architectural point of view.  As I stated before, it's easy to fix the
> implementation.  It's harder to fix the architecture.

  I agree. There appears to be equal demand for getting the existing
software up and running, as well for an effort to develop a cleaner 
best-of-breed architecture. I propose that we create two separate top
level repository branches for parallel tracts to address both issues. 
First a 1.0 code base containing the existing code in the downloads 
area, and second a 2.0 tree which containing what will become the next
generation stack. 

  I think the first issues to cover in the 1.0 branch would be to 
address the overly complicated and error prone build system, which
is actually a number of independant build systems glued together.
As for code cleanup a good start would probably be a unified coding
style that matches the kernel style.

-Libor

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