[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> i realize that you're attached to your current method,
> but i've _used_ a different method, and i can say from
> experience that it works _much_ better...

I'd like to see a clean method, that doesn't replace one set of
problems that I understand with another that I have to learn.

> at sonoma, i heard quite a few people asking for easier
> access to the OFED source.  from the user's point of view,
> pulling a single branch from a repo is _much_ simpler
> than our current setup, don't you think?

I think users really want tarballs. If we had tarballs
prepatched for all kernels, I think the problem would be solved
for most people.

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