[ewg] [PATCH ofed-1.2] ipath - Support the IBA6110 revision 4

[Tziporet Koren]

Roland Dreier wrote:
> Any progress on getting the ipath patches submitted for the upstream kernel?
>
> It seems to me that there is something wrong with the OFED process if
> changes like this (adding support for a new chip revision) are
> submitted to OFED and then end up not getting submitted for the
> upstream kernel.  Perhaps the rules for OFED kernel stuff should be
> closer to the stable at kernel.org rules, ie changes must be queued for
> the upstream kernel first (if the changes applies -- obviously things
> like SDP or VNIC, or fixes for bugs that don't exist upstream would be
> exceptions).
>
>   

I agree with this and in general this is the way we wish things will be 
done in all kernel modules that are part of Linux kernel.
Let's follow this guideline better in next release.

Tziporet