[ewg] Re: [PATCH 0/5 VNIC] VNIC patch series for OFED-1.2 and OFED-1.2.c

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Kuchimanchi, Ramachandra <ramachandra.kuchimanchi at qlogic.com>:
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/5 VNIC] VNIC patch series for OFED-1.2 and OFED-1.2.c
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael S. Tsirkin [mailto:mst at dev.mellanox.co.il]
> Sent: Mon 8/6/2007 11:48 PM
> To: Kuchimanchi, Ramachandra
> Cc: vlad at mellanox.co.il; ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5 VNIC] VNIC patch series for OFED-1.2 and OFED-1.2.c
>  
> > Quoting Ramachandra K <ramachandra.kuchimanchi at qlogic.com>:
> > Subject: [PATCH 0/5 VNIC] VNIC patch series for OFED-1.2 and OFED-1.2.c
> > 
> > 
> > Vlad,
> > 
> > Please apply this VNIC patch series to both the OFED-1.2 and OFED-1.2.c
> > branches.
> > 
> > This series contains changes to the VNIC driver for supporting iPath and the
> > new version of the VEx hardware, the Ethernet Virtual I/O Controller (EVIC).
> 
> > I don't see how adding features to 1.2 *at this stage* can be justufied.
> 
> Just to clarify, when I by OFED-1.2, I meant the next release in the 1.2
> series of OFED i.e OFED-1.2.1 and ultimately for OFED-1.3 down the line. Is
> there any other branch designated for that ?

I think EWG decided that the next release in the 1.2 series will be 1.2.c.
So far, the definition of 1.2.c was "1.2 plus bugfixes plus connectx support".

Stuff intended for 1.3 should go here for now:
git://openfabrics.org/~vlad/ofed_kernel ofed_kernel
This has been updated to 2.6.23-rc2, but otherwise is tracking ofed_1_2_c.

> And I hope there is no objection for inclusion of these patches in OFED-1.2.c
> branch.

This looks like a change of methodology so this might be something EWG
would have to agree on. Right?

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