Re: [PATCH V2 09/12] net/eipoib: Add main driver functionality

From: Ali Ayoub <redacted>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:31:35 -0700

With eIPoIB architecture, the VM sees standard Ethernet emulator,
allowing the administrator to enslave eIPoIB PIF to the vSwitch/vBridge
as if it was standard Ethernet. Other approaches that exposes IB QP to
the VM (with w/o bypassing the kernel) won't be possible with the
current emulators and management tools.

So then fix the emulators and management tools to handle IB instead
of adding this bogus new protocol?

This new protocol seems to exist only because you don't want to have
to enhance the emulators and tools, and I'm sorry that isn't a valid
reason to do something like this.