[ewg] RE: Sun is asking for a response on Bug No.s 1522, 1523

[Woodruff, Robert J]

Bill, since the bug was submitted as P3 and normal,
rather than P1 as critical or blocker, it was probably overlooked as something
that had to be fixed in 1.4. I changed the bug to a blocker P1 bug for OFED 1.4.1,
and thus should show up on the bug tracking list that gets reviewed in the EWG.

In addition to enterring the bug into bugzilla, people may also want to send
an email to the maintaner for blocker bugs, so that they know it needs quick
attention. It is asigned to Jeff Becker, the NFS/RDMA maintainer.
I know that there were some issues with backports for NFS/RDMA in 1.4 and
believe he is trying to get these fixed for OFED 1.4.1.

woody


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From: Bill Boas [mailto:Bill.Boas at openfabrics.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:06 AM
To: general at lists.openfabrics.org; ewg at lists.openfabrics.org; wwg at lists.openfabrics.org
Cc: 'Peter Jones'; 'Brian J. Murrell'; 'Makia Minich'; Bryon.Neitzel at Sun.COM
Subject: Sun is asking for a response on Bug No.s 1522, 1523

Dear OFA Maintainers:

Sun has contacted me about these bugs and is asking for priority action to get fixes for them. See the thread below.

I'm sending this email to 3 OFA lists because Sun having to contact the Alliance this way raises many questions about how a vendor like Sun or a customer like, say, a Wall St bank gets bugs fixed and where do we, the OFA, publish this information?

And if we agree that an OFA maintainer is the right person to fix the bug how does that maintainer learn that and how do they respond?

Thank you for responding to this email and to the Sun team using OFED in their products.

Bill.


Bill Boas

Executive Director and Vice Chair

OpenFabrics Alliance

510-375-8840

Bill.Boas at openfabrics.org<mailto:Bill.Boas at openfabrics.org>

www.openfabrics.org

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From: Bryon.Neitzel at Sun.COM [mailto:Bryon.Neitzel at Sun.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:20 PM
To: Bill Boas
Cc: Peter Jones; Brian J. Murrell; Makia Minich
Subject: Fwd: OFED 1.4 for NHM chips

Hi Bill,
I found the bug numbers for the Lustre build issues against OFED 1.4.0 that I mentioned yesterday.
Is there any way to bump up the priority on these? This is blocking our ability to deliver our new Vayu (Nehalem+QDR) hardware to our customers, since Mellanox says they'll only support OFED 1.4 with QDR hardware.

Thanks,
Bryon


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From: "Brian J. Murrell" <Brian.Murrell at Sun.COM<mailto:Brian.Murrell at Sun.COM>>
Date: February 25, 2009 1:06:49 PM MST
To: Bryon Neitzel <Bryon.Neitzel at Sun.COM<mailto:Bryon.Neitzel at Sun.COM>>
Cc: Peter Jones <Peter.A.Jones at Sun.COM<mailto:Peter.A.Jones at Sun.COM>>
Subject: Re: OFED 1.4 for NHM chips

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 12:59 -0700, Bryon Neitzel wrote:

Hi Brian,   what is the website where these OFED bugs were filed?

https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522
https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1523


Bill Boas tried to find any OFED bugs opened by Sun yesterday,

Yeah.  I opened them a number of days ago.

Not sure if it matters to anyone, but IMHO, 1523 is the correct future
direction and fixing that would implicitly fix 1522.  1523 basically
describes separating the "technology preview" that caused this breakage
out into it's own independent module so that it does not pollute the
OFED core.  As such, it might be resisted as it's a "deeper cut" type of
fix, but one that removes the sick part rather than trying to continue
to bandage it.

b.

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