[Bug 1304632] Review Request: libmlx5 - Mellanox Connect-IB InfiniBand HCA Userspace Driver

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1304632

Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com> ---
(In reply to kamal heib from comment #3)
> > > ExcludeArch: s390 s390x
> > 
> > Use of ExcludeArch needs an explanatory comment in the spec.
> >
> 
> Will be addressed in V2.

"RDMA support in general is not available on s390 at all.  RDMA support is
available in s390x, but the only hardware supported by the bare metal
hypervisor provided by IBM is mlx4 hardware in Ethernet mode and providing RoCE
based RDMA services.  No other hardware is supported at this time and therefore
the code for mlx5 does not need built on s390 or s390x."

> 
> > > %package static
> > 
> > Static libraries should only be included in exceptional circumstances.
> > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:
> > Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries)
> > Please explain why having the static library is necessary.
> > 
> 
> Is the following description is not enough? 
> 
> Static version of libmlx5 that may be linked directly to an application,
> which may be useful for debugging.

"The RDMA stack in general provides static versions of hardware drivers and
libibverbs for reasons related to performance on large scale clusters where
every cycle counts."

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