[ewg] Compatibility in OFED

[John Russo]

QLogic is going to deal with the problem by working to decouple
ourselves from this particular library.

I initially raised the point as a general "heads-up" that there was at
least one case where tools were broken because of a library change.  The
community needs to understand that not every user of the OFED offering
is going to be monitoring the threads and any change that 'breaks' a
user's script etc. will cause some backlash. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sasha Khapyorsky [mailto:sashak at voltaire.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:34 AM
To: Betsy Zeller
Cc: John Russo; ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [ewg] Compatibility in OFED

On 01:04 Tue 03 Jun     , Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> 
> > Separately, we should discuss how me manage version changes -
> > introducing a version change in the middle of the RCs seems a bit
late
> > in the process.
> 
> I agree that number of changes (at all) should be minimized in RC
> period.

BTW the change you are complaining about was done Jun 13 2007. I think
it was even before OFED-1.3 started.

Sasha