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Date:      Thu, 10 Feb 2011 07:45:12 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Jeff Roberson <jeff@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-projects@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r218501 - in projects/ofed/head/sys: amd64/conf conf net ofed/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib ofed/drivers/infiniband/ulp/sdp ofed/include/linux
Message-ID:  <201102100745.12090.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201102100005.p1A05B8w002402@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201102100005.p1A05B8w002402@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Wednesday, February 09, 2011 7:05:11 pm Jeff Roberson wrote:
> Author: jeff
> Date: Thu Feb 10 00:05:11 2011
> New Revision: 218501
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/218501
> 
> Log:
>    - Change ofed from a device line to an options line in the config so that
>      we can test for it in the link layer address table to avoid the overhead
>      when it is not compiled.
>    - Introduce some more ofed configuration options so you don't have to
>      manually edit headers to enable debugging etc.
>    - Fix a bug with ipoib, when cm mode is enabled checksumming doesn't
>      work on all cards.
>    - Ignore the linux admin flag for cm enabled, if it's compiled in, use it
>      when the remote host supports it.
>    - Support transmitting mbufs with more than one sg entry in ipoib cm.
>    - Normalize the MTU settings and document whether they include the header
>      or not in the ipoib.h file where the variables are defined.

FYI, if you'd rather keep 'ofed' as a device, there is a "feature" of
config(8) that you can declare a 'DEV_<foo>' option in sys/conf/options and
config(8) will enable that option if 'device foo' is in the kernel config.
For example, 'device apic' enables the 'DEV_APIC' option.

-- 
John Baldwin



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