Re: [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-06 Thread Roland Dreier
The kernel is a large piece that keeps moving on - its made of many smaller pieces/components, but with very sharp and well defined dependencies and interactions.  The rdma stack is far from being an isolated piece which you can pull from kernel X and plug into kernel Y - this applies all over

Re: [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-04 Thread Or Gerlitz
On 12/2/2011 2:04 AM, Hefty, Sean wrote: We propose a new process for the OFED releases starting from next OFED release: - OFED content will be the relevant kernel.org modules and user space released packages - OFED will offer only backports to the distros (no fixes) I think this point needs

Re: [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Bart Van Assche wrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Hefty, Sean sean.he...@intel.com wrote: - What should we do with modules like SDP that are not in kernel? Either remove them or carry them forward as experimental features. Wat I expect is that reworking the SDP

Re: [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Tziporet Koren wrote: We propose a new process for the OFED releases starting from next OFED release: - OFED content will be the relevant kernel.org modules and user space released packages - OFED will offer only backports to the distros (no fixes) - OFED package will

Re: [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-02 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Christoph Lameter c...@linux.com wrote: What were the issues that prevented the merging of the SDP implementation? At least AF_INET_SDP - there might have been other issues. See e.g. http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/6/70. Bart. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

[RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-01 Thread Tziporet Koren
We propose a new process for the OFED releases starting from next OFED release: - OFED content will be the relevant kernel.org modules and user space released packages - OFED will offer only backports to the distros (no fixes) - OFED package will be used for easy installation of all packages in

RE: [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-01 Thread Hefty, Sean
We propose a new process for the OFED releases starting from next OFED release: - OFED content will be the relevant kernel.org modules and user space released packages - OFED will offer only backports to the distros (no fixes) I think this point needs to be clarified - at least to me

RE: [RFC] - Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-01 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Sean wrote, - OFED will offer only backports to the distros (no fixes) I think this point needs to be clarified - at least to me anyway. :) What this means is that the OFED code base will be identical to what is included in the upstream kernel and libs. OFED will provide only backports to

Re: [RFC] - Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-01 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 04:13:41PM -0800, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: Sean wrote, - OFED will offer only backports to the distros (no fixes) I think this point needs to be clarified - at least to me anyway. :) What this means is that the OFED code base will be identical to what is included

Re: [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-01 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Hefty, Sean sean.he...@intel.com wrote: - What should we do with modules like SDP that are not in kernel? Either remove them or carry them forward as experimental features. Wat I expect is that reworking the SDP implementation such that it can be included