On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:38:25PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:54:40PM +0300, sagi grimberg wrote: > > Well, I feel the same way (although less harsh about it), I would > > prefer to have it all inbox. > > As I see it, OFED is useful for costumers who want to upgrade RDMA > > functionality (or get Tech previews) > > without upgrading their distro or wait for it to land upstream. > > For that we have the compat drivers project, which could easily handle > the rdma drivers as well. > > The problem with OFED is (or was last time a looked) that it's a big > pile that includes backports, and new features not submitted or even > rejected upstream.
Official OFA OFED is now strictly backports from a given kernel verison, and TBH, is not widely used now that everything is included in the modern distros. The vendor 'OFEDs' remain a big pile. I'm not even sure source is proved for them.. At least it isn't readily apparent. IMHO, the vendors should not be co-opting the OFED branding, but that is a whole other topic.... Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
