[openib-general] 2.6.18 kernel support in the main trunk.

[Tom Tucker]

On 9/28/06 4:25 PM, "Woodruff, Robert J" <robert.j.woodruff at intel.com>
wrote:

> Steve wrote,
>> ok.  topic branches in your git tree or a set of git trees sounds
>> reasonable.    But to facilitate those trying to assemble bits and
>> pieces, we should provide documentation on where they get this stuff.
>> This _might_ help convince those who are hanging on to the svn idea to
>> adopt this new scheme...
> 
>> Steve.
> 
> Perhaps we need something similar to the concept of an MM tree
> where new, more experimental patches, can be applied and tested
> together before going into Roland's mainline git tree that is queued for
> kernel.org.
> 
> Again, some sort of development branch like what we use to have
> with SVN. Does not matter to me if this is git or SVN, but
> a central data base is desirable so that people don't have to
> get things from all over the place.

I think that there is an elephant in this room that everyone seems to be
ignoring -- no one is signed up to select and merge the relevant topic
branches together to create a unified, working "release candidate" and then
posting it in a convenient place for you to pull from.

Unless this developer resource problem is solved, you will be left with a
well defined (but empty) branch to pull from.


> 
> There are definitely going to be early adopters that want to
> try out several of the new things, iWarp, rdma_cm, SDP, etc.
> all at once from one code base, so having a way for them to
> get versions of all the various components that are still under
> development is what is needed.
> 
> What I don't want to see is what we have now. Things like iWarp that
> are submitted upstream but do not work with some of the latest
> development code (in SVN) for the rdma_cm, SDP, etc. In that model,
> there is no easy way for someone to get a version of all of the
> different pieces that all work together.
> 
> woody
> 
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