[ewg] Re: [ofw] SC'09 BOF - Meeting notes

[Eli Cohen]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:38:59AM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> 
> yes, this would be simply not supportable, think about that, you want
> to hand your customers with a code which didn't pass review nor
> acceptance by the Linux IB stack maintainers (Roland and Sean), say,
> next a crash happens at this or that module / line, next, what you
> except the maintainers to do?
> 
Saying that the patch set did not go through a review process would
not inaccurate.
Bellow is a brief log of major changes done on the RDMAoE patches for
your reference. A detailed correspondence can be found at the
openfabrics general list.

Rev1 - June 15 2009, first patch set sent for review
Rev2 - June 25 2009, Sean - move path resolution to a new module
(rdmaoe_sa)
Rev3 - July 13 2009, Sean, Roland, share data structs between
multicast.c and rdmaoe_sa.c, distinguish between rdmaoe and ib calls
at the cma, increment ABI version
Rev4 - Aug 5 2009, Woody Sean Or, ports are differentiated by port
protocol rather than port type, move rdmaoe sa functionality to cma
Rev5 - Aug 19 2009, Roland, Sean, don't use broadcast MACs to map
multicast GIDs, MAD service disabled for userspace, add
rdma_is_transport_supported()
Annonuce - Sep 17 2009, OFED-RDMAoE branch announce, daily builds
available
Rev6 - Nov 16 2009, NIC programming moved from CMA to hw driver so
verbs consumer can utilize it.