[ewg] Wish to remove local sa patches from OFED 1.5

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Tziporet
Koren<tziporet at dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> Jack Morgenstein wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> We wish to remove the local sa patches from OFED 1.5.  The local SA is
>> disabled by default,
>> and to the best of our knowledge, no one is using it, though it has been
>> around since OFED 1.3.
>> It has also never been accepted into the mainline kernel.
>>
>> We wish therefore to remove it from OFED 1.5.
>>
>> This includes, under kernel_patches/fixes, the following patches:
>>        sean_local_sa_1_notifications.patch
>>        sean_local_sa_2_cache.patch
>>        sean_local_sa_3_disable.patch
>>        sean_local_sa_4_fix_hang.patch
>>
>> If anyone objects to this removal, please let me know ASAP.
>>
>>
>
> Since Qlogic are using some of the APIs in these files it was decided not to
> remove them in 1.5
> However Qlogic were requested to approach Sean and see if they can move
> their implementation to the new SA API he is developing now

Has this new SA API been proposed to the list as yet (and I missed it :-() ?

Thanks.

-- Hal

> so eventualy we will be able to remove them
>
> Tziporet
>
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