On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 08:32:28AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > Arjan> The bigger issue is: if people can't be bothered to do > Arjan> those steps, why would they be bothered to do this for > Arjan> maintenance and bugfixes etc etc? Basically it's now > Arjan> already a de-facto unmaintained driver.... > > I don't think that's really a fair statement. The IBM people have > been active and responsive in maintaining their driving in the > openib.org svn tree. However, they asked me to post their driver for > review because it would be difficult for them to do it.
Checking stuff into a private svn tree is vastly different from posting to lkml in public. In fact, it looks like the svn tree is so far ahead of the in-kernel stuff, that most people are just using it instead of the in-kernel code. I know at least one company has asked a distro to just accept the svn snapshot over the in-kernel IB code, which makes me wonder if the in-kernel stuff is even useful to people? Why have it, if companies insist on using the out-of-tree stuff instead? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
