[ewg] RE: [ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available

[Tziporet Koren]

Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
>
> Not sure I buy that argument.
>
> I think in the past we have had some features in OFED that were only
> availible
> on certain kernels/distros. If I recall, for example, I think that for
> a while iser was not available for all kernels until the backport
> patches were developed. 
>   
Not a problem that a ULP will not support all kernels (its even the 
status now of some drivers/ulps)
But every ULP must have a maintainer with git tree on ofa server, 
supporting few of the relevant kernels.
Also the maintainer must run some unit level testing to make sure its 
working.
> Are you proposing we remove something that is in an upstream kernel 
> from OFED ? 
We never remove anything that is coming from Linux kernel
> as I thought that generally all features that are upstream get included
> into OFED and then perhaps some features that are not yet upstream
> are added on. That seems to be the process that we have followed 
> in the past anyway.
>
>   
I agree - this is the way things are working

Tziporet