[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] osm/osm_mcast_mgr.c: coredump in ofed_1_2

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

Hi Hal,

On 09:15 Thu 27 Dec     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> 
> There were other patches I supplied, etc. I don't think it was just the
> outstanding counter fix but others too.

I may be wrong about it, but I don't remember this now. If you like me
to review those patches again, let's review.

> > > I can dig out the emails if this is really needed.
> > > 
> > > > I don't backport non critical fixes and improvements from master to 1.2
> > > > - that is true.
> > > 
> > > There were a number of fixes originally supplied for 1.2 up ported to
> > > 1.3. Guess you could always consider them non critical although I would
> > > beg to differ on some of those.
> > 
> > Always - no, but in general I prefer to run master in the field.
> 
> Not everyone has that luxury (and master has not even shipped as 1.3
> yet).

The recent OpenSM (and management) versions are available as tarballs
and/or from the git repo.

> I tried to get this changed but seems no one else shares this
> issue. As I said before, the implication of this is that 1.2 is not
> officially supported based on this policy (although there are fixes
> going into 1.2 as 1.2.5 is still "live").

There should not be connection between "this policy" and the official
OFED 1.2 support which is provided by software/hardware vendors.

Sasha