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[Mark Johnston]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 06:09:25PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 11/24/17 16:00, Mark Johnston wrote:
> > Are there non-trivial interoperability issues between mthca and the
> > updated OFED stack? If so, could you describe them? If not, I would
> > strongly prefer to retain the mthca driver, as Isilon still has plenty
> > of hardware making use of it.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There are no technical reasons except Mellanox hasn't focused on the 
> mthca driver in this upgrade. With little effort you should be able to 
> pull libmthca and the mthca driver from the mentioned sources and make 
> it work.

In that case, could we please bring it back in to svn? It seems silly to
remove a driver just because it's not being actively maintained: that
isn't the bar for keeping drivers in FreeBSD, and I note that mthca is
still present in Linux. If there is some work needed to get the kernel
and userland components to compile again, I'm happy to do it; I just
don't want to have to maintain an out-of-tree HCA driver when there's no
good reason it can't stay in svn.