[openib-general] backporting fixes

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: backporting fixes
> 
>  > Now that  2.6.18 (with an additional patch) I looked at backporting bugfixes to
>  > older kernels.  The main problem I see is that the neighbour destructor
>  > interface change is not in 2.6.16, so IPoIB crashes randomly.
>  > 
>  > So approaches are
>  > - Try to push the change into 2.6.16 by netdev
>  > - Use the all-neighbour list as done by ofed
>  > - Abandon the whole project
>  > 
>  > Ideas?
> 
> Unfortunately I don't think this bug is very amenable to being fixed
> in a 2.6.16/-stable tree.  So the third solution is probably the best
> we can do at this point.

OK. How about 2.6.17.y?
I'm somewhat confused whether someone is still maintaining these.

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