> > OFED is a software product of OFA, not Linux. OFA can put anything > > that they want in it. Why do you even care? It's no different than > > Intel or Mellanox or any other company shipping out of tree > > software. > > The primary answer to your question depends on whether or not the > software will ever be upstreamed. If it will, then it really should > go > there first and not later, and the reason is well exemplified by what > happened with XRC where the version that landed in OFED and the > version > that landed in upstream were two totally different things, and users > had > to go back and fix up all their code because of the difference once it > finally did land upstream. It's not nice to put users in that > position > again, and this does sound like it might end up going down that exact > road since upstream is pursuing ways of doing peer to peer PCI > operations and such without any input from the Xeon Phi folks.
I'm not defending whatever business decisions any organization (including a multi-company non-profit like OFA) wants to make wrt their software distributions. I'm claiming that that's their decision. _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/ewg
