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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks for the response Ray.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m fine with option 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:90%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Tom Freeman</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:90%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Software Engineer, Device Manager and Driver Development</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Robles, Raymond C [mailto:raymond.c.robles@intel.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 15, 2016 3:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Thomas Freeman <thomas.freeman@hgst.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org' <nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Happy New Year... and status update<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#002060">Hi Tom,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#002060">Great questions… here are my thoughts. But I encourage others to chime in as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Is this purely a question of how the changes are packaged?</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><b><span style="color:#0070C0">[RCR] Exactly! I am merely making a suggestion that will ease the burden of having mandatory releases… as well as having to adhere to a schedule that really has no meaning to any particular product since the OFA driver
 is a reference driver. Much like the Linux community, any vendor can take our baseline and package it up as needed, but for the community itself, it just manages bug fix and feature patches as they come in.</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Or do any of these options imply what type of fixes/changes will be delivered in the future? i.e. Does choosing option 3 imply that the driver is going into purely maintenance
 mode?</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><b><span style="color:#0070C0">[RCR] Not at all. Option 3 is simply us doing what we’ve done all along… with the exception of not doing any “official releases”. All bug fix and feature patches would still be
 graciously accepted… and welcome </span></b><b><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#0070C0">J</span><span style="color:#0070C0">.</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Or with that option, would there still be a coordinated effort to release new function along with fixes?</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><b><span style="color:#0070C0">[RCR] Exactly… see above responses.</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Does this answer your questions Tom?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Ray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Thomas Freeman [<a href="mailto:thomas.freeman@hgst.com">mailto:thomas.freeman@hgst.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 15, 2016 9:04 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Robles, Raymond C; 'nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Happy New Year... and status update<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Ray,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Is this purely a question of how the changes are packaged? Or do any of these options imply what type of fixes/changes will be delivered in the future? i.e. Does choosing option 3 imply that the driver is going
 into purely maintenance mode? Or with that option, would there still be a coordinated effort to release new function along with fixes?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:90%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Tom Freeman</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:90%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Software Engineer, Device Manager and Driver Development</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:90%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">HGST, a Western Digital company</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Rochester, MN 55901</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org">
nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org</a> [<a href="mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org">mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robles, Raymond C<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 14, 2016 5:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org' <<a href="mailto:nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org">nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [nvmewin] Happy New Year... and status update<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">Hello and Happy New Year,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">I hope everyone had a great holiday season and is off to a great start to the new year!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">As communicated last month, the patch from HGST for the SCSI multi-initiator changes has been approved and pushed. The holidays slowed down much of the progress on the
 OFA driver and there were several patches that did not get pushed prior to the end of the year. The list of patches remained to be pushed are as follows…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">Namespace Management (Intel)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">Perf Opts (Samsung)
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">Win 8.1 Timers (Samsung)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">EOL Read Only (Samsung)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">Concurrent channels (Google)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">The namespace management patch will be sent out for review tomorrow (look for the patch email from Carolyn)… stay tuned!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">However, once this patch is resolved, we as a community will have to make a decision on an official release strategy. The patch process and cadence was significantly
 slower in 2015 which leaves us with a few options. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">Release what is in the trunk today (or after the namespace management patch)… and call that the 2015 release (albeit later than expected)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">In lieu of an official 2015 release, we push the remaining patches listed above… and then release in ~Q2 of 2015. Basically skip a 2015 release and go right
 into the mid-2016 release.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">Remove the concept of “official releases” from the OFA Windows NVMe driver and just allow people, companies, and users to pull from the OFA trunk as necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">For #3 above, my thoughts are that because the OFA driver is not a production driver… but a reference and enabling driver, it should/could be managed as just that… a
 reference baseline driver that any potential user can go and grab the source, or contribute a patch. Nothing more… nothing less.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">For the release decision, I’ll be happy to call a meeting… but we can also handle it via email as well… just let me know. Feedback
 from all is welcome… but I would request mandatory feedback form the 4 reviewing companies: Samsung, HGST, PMC-Sierra, and Intel. How would you like to proceed?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#44546A">Ray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Intel Clear";color:#1F497D">Raymond C. Robles<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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