[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] OFED 1.2 Feb-26 meeting summary

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:11:18PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> > >  is the only reason  
> > > *not* to do it the historical precedent of prior community OFED  
> > > versions?  If so, that argument is somewhat diluted because a) we (as  
> > > a community) are encouraging users to upgrade, and b) RH started is  
> > > already shipping OFED RPMs that live in /usr.
> > 
> > c) like every other initially /usr/local package, there comes a time to
> > grow up.  If historical precedent meant anything, I'm sure X would still
> > be in /usr/local.
> 
> Sounds OK. Does EWG vote on this, or something?

Along the lines of growing up.. 

Now that distributors are shipping openfabrics components I think the
expectation of OFED will change a little bit. Generally people are
happiest if upgrades to things included in their distribution look,
act and feel like the original thing. If the distributions are not
going to provide feature upgrades as OF keeps evolving for their
past releases then there is going to be a larger need for distribution
specific binary rpm based upgrades to newer OF stuff.

Basically, I wonder if the usefulness of a primarily source OFED
distribution is shrinking? Maybe expanding the program to provide
RH/SuSE compatible source and binary upgrade RPMs is better?

Jason