[ewg] RFC: Splitting of the management git tree in Open Fabrics

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

On 08/31/2010 10:51 PM, Ira Weiny wrote:
> As I briefly mentioned in an email to Yevgeny regarding libibumad ABI's; I
> believe it is time to break up the management git tree.
>
> With GA of OFED 1.5.2 scheduled for Sept 13, I would like to request comments
> from the community about the following split after that GA.
>
> On openfabrics.org/git split management.git into the following trees.
>
> openfabrics.org/git/infiniband-diags.git
> openfabrics.org/git/libibumad.git
> openfabrics.org/git/libibmad.git
> openfabrics.org/git/opensm.git
>
> Sasha can populate those from the current management tree.  We believe there
> are git commands which will do this without losing any history from the git
> trees.
>
> Vlad, what changes would you have to make in the OFED build to accommodate
> these packages being in separate git trees?
>

No changes will be required to the OFED build as all management packages are
taken as tarballs from http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/management

Regards,
Vladimir