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

[Hal Rosenstock]

Madhu,

On 8/7/07, Lakshmanan, Madhu <madhu.lakshmanan at qlogic.com> wrote:
> > From: Tziporet Koren [mailto:tziporet at dev.mellanox.co.il]
> > To: Lakshmanan, Madhu
> > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin; Kuchimanchi, Ramachandra; vlad at mellanox.co.il;
> ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
> > Subject: Re: [ewg] Re: [PATCH 0/5 VNIC] VNIC patch series for OFED-1.2
> andOFED-1.2.c
> >
> > Lakshmanan, Madhu wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Here's how I understand it:
> > >>
> > >> 1.2 should not see any development - it's a major bugfix only
> branch.
> > >> 1.2.c is 1.2 code updated to kernel 2.6.22 plus bugfixes.
> > >> 1.3 is 1.2.c updated to latest kernel (currently 2.6.23) plus new
> features.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> MST
> > >>
> > >
> > > Thanks for the clarification, which I take to be the official EWG
> > > position. If I recall correctly, the decision to do away with a
> 1.2.1
> > > release, and go with only a 1.2.c release, was made only a few days
> ago.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > The decision to have 1.2.c only was taken last week on Monday and was
> > sent in the meeting summary.
> > Features list of 1.2.c was closed and till yesterday no one from
> Qlogic
> > requested any change in VNIC.
> > > In addition to the support for the ipath device and the EVIC (next
> > > generation Ethernet Virtual I/O Controller), these patches also fix
> bugs
> > > that we discovered when testing with the OFED 1.2.c releases and the
> > > ConnectX HCA.
> > >
> > >
> > I suggest you prepare patches with bug fixes only for VNIC for 1.2.c
> and
> > we will be able to insert them.
> > Tziporet
>
> We'll submit new VNIC features into OFED 1.3.

One other comment as to VNIC and OFED 1.3 which was brought up a while
ago but never resolved:

Since VNIC is a generic term and other vendors are likely to be
submitting VNICs, there should be some vendor specific naming scheme
with vendor like ql_ prepended to file names, etc. or in a vendor
based ulp directory like ulp/qlogic.
Maybe there are other ways to accomodate this as well. I think this
needs to be done prior to an upstream push. Is that intended in the
1.3 timeframe ?

Thanks.

-- Hal

> Is there a final date till which you are accepting bug fixes for OFED
> 1.2.c?
>
> Thanks, Madhu
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