[ewg] Re: Sun is asking for a response on Bug No.s 1522, 1523

[Jeff Becker]

Hi

Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> Bill, since the bug was submitted as P3 and normal,
> rather than P1 as critical or blocker, it was probably overlooked as
> something
> that had to be fixed in 1.4. I changed the bug to a blocker P1 bug for
> OFED 1.4.1,
> and thus should show up on the bug tracking list that gets reviewed in
> the EWG.
>  
> In addition to enterring the bug into bugzilla, people may also want
> to send
> an email to the maintaner for blocker bugs, so that they know it needs
> quick
> attention. It is asigned to Jeff Becker, the NFS/RDMA maintainer.
> I know that there were some issues with backports for NFS/RDMA in 1.4 and
> believe he is trying to get these fixed for OFED 1.4.1.

I'm currently finishing up the SLES11 backports for OFED, and I'll work
on this when I'm done. Thanks.

-jeff

>  
> woody
>  
>
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> *From:* Bill Boas [mailto:Bill.Boas at openfabrics.org]
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:06 AM
> *To:* general at lists.openfabrics.org; ewg at lists.openfabrics.org;
> wwg at lists.openfabrics.org
> *Cc:* 'Peter Jones'; 'Brian J. Murrell'; 'Makia Minich';
> Bryon.Neitzel at Sun.COM
> *Subject:* Sun is asking for a response on Bug No.s 1522, 1523
>
> Dear OFA Maintainers:
>
>  
>
> Sun has contacted me about these bugs and is asking for priority
> action to get fixes for them. See the thread below.
>
>  
>
> I’m sending this email to 3 OFA lists because Sun having to contact
> the Alliance this way raises many questions about how a vendor like
> Sun or a customer like, say, a Wall St bank gets bugs fixed and where
> do we, the OFA, publish this information?
>
>  
>
> And if we agree that an OFA maintainer is the right person to fix the
> bug how does that maintainer learn that and how do they respond?
>
>  
>
> Thank you for responding to this email and to the Sun team using OFED
> in their products.
>
>  
>
> Bill.
>
>  
>
> Bill Boas
>
> Executive Director and Vice Chair
>
> OpenFabrics Alliance
>
> 510-375-8840
>
> Bill.Boas at openfabrics.org <mailto:Bill.Boas at openfabrics.org>
>
> www.openfabrics.org
>
>  
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>
> *From:* Bryon.Neitzel at Sun.COM [mailto:Bryon.Neitzel at Sun.COM]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:20 PM
> *To:* Bill Boas
> *Cc:* Peter Jones; Brian J. Murrell; Makia Minich
> *Subject:* Fwd: OFED 1.4 for NHM chips
>
>  
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> I found the bug numbers for the Lustre build issues against OFED 1.4.0
> that I mentioned yesterday.
>
> Is there any way to bump up the priority on these? This is blocking
> our ability to deliver our new Vayu (Nehalem+QDR) hardware to our
> customers, since Mellanox says they'll only support OFED 1.4 with QDR
> hardware.
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bryon
>
>  
>
>  
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>
>
> *From: *"Brian J. Murrell" <Brian.Murrell at Sun.COM
> <mailto:Brian.Murrell at Sun.COM>>
>
> *Date: *February 25, 2009 1:06:49 PM MST
>
> *To: *Bryon Neitzel <Bryon.Neitzel at Sun.COM <mailto:Bryon.Neitzel at Sun.COM>>
>
> *Cc: *Peter Jones <Peter.A.Jones at Sun.COM <mailto:Peter.A.Jones at Sun.COM>>
>
> *Subject: **Re: OFED 1.4 for NHM chips*
>
>  
>
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 12:59 -0700, Bryon Neitzel wrote:
>
> Hi Brian,   what is the website where these OFED bugs were filed?    
>
>
> https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522
> https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1523
>
>
> Bill Boas tried to find any OFED bugs opened by Sun yesterday,
>
>
> Yeah.  I opened them a number of days ago.
>
> Not sure if it matters to anyone, but IMHO, 1523 is the correct future
> direction and fixing that would implicitly fix 1522.  1523 basically
> describes separating the "technology preview" that caused this breakage
> out into it's own independent module so that it does not pollute the
> OFED core.  As such, it might be resisted as it's a "deeper cut" type of
> fix, but one that removes the sick part rather than trying to continue
> to bandage it.
>
> b.
>
>  
>