Re: [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-06 Thread Roland Dreier
> The kernel is a large piece that keeps moving on - its made of many smaller > pieces/components, but with very sharp and well defined dependencies and > interactions.  The rdma stack is far from being an isolated piece which you > can pull from kernel X and plug into kernel Y - this applies all o

Re: [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-06 Thread Steve Wise
On 12/05/2011 01:05 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote: To be concrete/constructive here, a per IB stack module individual has to be assigned for that backporting, which doesn't mean "make IB code from kernel X to build under kernel Y" - lets see if we have people to actually do that. For example, on the i

Re: [ewg] [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-05 Thread Doug Ledford
On 12/01/2011 02:53 PM, Tziporet Koren wrote: > > We propose a new process for the OFED releases starting from next OFED > release: > - OFED content will be the relevant kernel.org modules and user space > released packages > - OFED will offer only backports to the distros (no fixes) > - OFED p

Re: [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-04 Thread Or Gerlitz
On 12/2/2011 2:04 AM, Hefty, Sean wrote: We propose a new process for the OFED releases starting from next OFED release: - OFED content will be the relevant kernel.org modules and user space released packages - OFED will offer only backports to the distros (no fixes) I think this point needs

Re: [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-02 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > What were the issues that prevented the merging of the SDP > implementation? At least AF_INET_SDP - there might have been other issues. See e.g. http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/6/70. Bart. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Tziporet Koren wrote: > We propose a new process for the OFED releases starting from next OFED > release: > - OFED content will be the relevant kernel.org modules and user space > released packages > - OFED will offer only backports to the distros (no fixes) > - OFED package

Re: [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Hefty, Sean wrote: > > > - What should we do with modules like SDP that are not in kernel? > > > > Either remove them or carry them forward as experimental features. > > Wat I expect is that reworking the SDP implementat

Re: [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-01 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Hefty, Sean wrote: > > - What should we do with modules like SDP that are not in kernel? > > Either remove them or carry them forward as experimental features. Wat I expect is that reworking the SDP implementation such that it can be included upstream will take les

Re: [RFC] - Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-01 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 04:13:41PM -0800, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: > Sean wrote, > >> - OFED will offer only backports to the distros (no fixes) > > I think this point needs to be clarified - at least to me anyway. :) > > What this means is that the OFED code base will be identical to what > is

RE: [RFC] - Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-01 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Sean wrote, >> - OFED will offer only backports to the distros (no fixes) > I think this point needs to be clarified - at least to me anyway. :) What this means is that the OFED code base will be identical to what is included in the upstream kernel and libs. OFED will provide only backports to a

RE: [RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-01 Thread Hefty, Sean
> We propose a new process for the OFED releases starting from next OFED > release: > - OFED content will be the relevant kernel.org modules and user space released > packages > - OFED will offer only backports to the distros (no fixes) I think this point needs to be clarified - at least to me an

[RFC] – Proposal for new process for OFED releases

2011-12-01 Thread Tziporet Koren
We propose a new process for the OFED releases starting from next OFED release: - OFED content will be the relevant kernel.org modules and user space released packages - OFED will offer only backports to the distros (no fixes) - OFED package will be used for easy installation of all packages in