Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: drop mthca from svn? > > Roland Dreier wrote: > > James> If the code is moved, how can the OpenFabrics community be > > James> guaranteed that the entire software stack will remain under > > James> a dual BSD/GPL license? > > > > You can't guarantee that someone won't come along and write some IB > > driver and get it merged upstream without a BSD license. So there's > > not much we can do anyway. > > Such a driver wouldn't be an OpenFabrics driver though. > > My only concern with this is its effect on backport patches, since most users > are not running the later kernels.
I agree. However most users really want a stale kernel - so we really should take bugfixes from 2.6.18 and backport to 2.6.17.x and 2.6.16.x. I might do this eventually - but I'm too busy now. Our backport patches in OFED also solve this, in another way. > I think only using the kernel org tree is > ideal for the more mature code though. Developing code still requires a > separate repository. Right. In git each developer has his own, and they get merged as they mature. -- MST _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
