[ewg] OFED 1.3 fix releases

Jeremy Brown jeremy.brown at qlogic.com
Tue Mar 4 15:32:45 PST 2008


On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 15:08 -0800, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> I think that it is a good idea to have a process for having dot
> releases,
> but I am a little concerned that they do not get the same level of
> testing
> that we put into the major releases.  I would vote for maybe having
> fewer
> dot releases with more regression testing on each one.

I agree with Woody, and would add that we should focus on restricting
the scope of any changes to what is truly needed for the fix. Moving to
a new kernel version for a dot release, for example, is extremely
disruptive to all components.

Jeremy




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