[ewg] Wish to remove local sa patches from OFED 1.5

[Tziporet Koren]

Jack Morgenstein wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We wish to remove the local sa patches from OFED 1.5.  The local SA is disabled by default,
> and to the best of our knowledge, no one is using it, though it has been around since OFED 1.3.
> It has also never been accepted into the mainline kernel.
>
> We wish therefore to remove it from OFED 1.5.
>
> This includes, under kernel_patches/fixes, the following patches:
> 	sean_local_sa_1_notifications.patch
> 	sean_local_sa_2_cache.patch
> 	sean_local_sa_3_disable.patch
> 	sean_local_sa_4_fix_hang.patch
>
> If anyone objects to this removal, please let me know ASAP.
>
>   
Since Qlogic are using some of the APIs in these files it was decided 
not to remove them in 1.5
However Qlogic were requested to approach Sean and see if they can move 
their implementation to the new SA API he is developing now so eventualy 
we will be able to remove them

Tziporet