On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 05:28:20PM +0000, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: > On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Right. Its really nasty when you are trying to add features that require > > libibverbs and libmlx? changes. Plus it may depend on kernel changes. > > On the other hand, combining everything into one package limits the > ability of the maintainer of the individual components to release > packages with simple bug fixes or enhancements that are component > specific and don't require kernel core or libibverbs changes. Thus, > they would have to wait till a new combined package gets released > and makes the maintainer of that package the bottleneck for getting > new code out.
That is certainly the minority of work these days, by my observation. Nearly everything is being driven by kernel side changes now and requires cross-library work. Or it is maintenance activity, which is so hard now (I've done a few patches over the years) it isn't worth doing unless it is really important. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
