[openib-general] idea for ofed 1 2 kernel file structure

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Steve WIse <swise at opengridcomputing.com>:
> Subject: Re: idea for ofed 1 2 kernel file structure
> 
> On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 19:58 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I looked a current ofed 1.2 kernel tree and there is 1 thing I
> > dislike:
> > 
> > It is hard to see changes that are specific to OFED since we have
> > whole kernel history mixed in.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > It would easy to split OFED specific files In separate directory and
> > have OFED scripts combine that with upstream kernel.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > All out of tree modules we distribute would go there too.
> > 
> > What do others think about this?
> > 
> >  
> 
> I'm not exactly clear what you mean.  Could you expand a little on your
> idea?

Well, OFED kernel tree is currently kernel.org files + OFED files.
We could have OFED files in a separate tree and build script
would put them together.

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