[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) <sweitzen at cisco.com>:
> Subject: RE: [ofa-general] Re: RFC OFED-1.3 installation
> 
> > > So you need to be able to
> > > tell the difference between a customer running libibverbs-1.0.4 from
> > > OFED-1.3-beta1 and libibverbs-1.0.4 from OFED-1.3 final.
> > 
> > I don't really think we want customers to run beta code, or 
> > intend to support
> > such configurations.
> 
> But we still need to tell the difference, so we can tell the customer
> they are running beta code and should upgrade.

Sure, this makes sense. Non-release code such as nightly builds must
be marked as suchas clearly as possible.
Installing such a version will always have an element of risk in it, though,
and I don't think we want to encourage such use in production environment.

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