RE: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary onRC3readiness

2008-01-31 Thread Sean Hefty
In all fairness, the kernel portion of all of this, and the process of getting things into Linus' kernel, has *always* been a case of staging things in Roland's tree and then merging upstream. So, at least for the kernel, that's mostly true as OFED is pretty close to Roland's tree generally

RE: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary onRC3readiness

2008-01-31 Thread Doug Ledford
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 10:07 -0800, Sean Hefty wrote: In all fairness, the kernel portion of all of this, and the process of getting things into Linus' kernel, has *always* been a case of staging things in Roland's tree and then merging upstream. So, at least for the kernel, that's mostly

Re: [ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 28 meeting summary onRC3readiness

2008-01-31 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:30:23PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: And I'm really not trying to come across harsh here, but if the distros are willing to pull the OFED code, why should OFA bother trying to merge anything upstream? I pull *some* OFED code. I don't pull it all. There are