[ewg] bug 1918 - openmpi broken due to rdma-cm changes

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Fri Feb 5 16:54:30 PST 2010


 > > Well, I think you are right. This kind of change seems appropriate to
 > > me for mainline, but OFED/RHEL should carry a responsibility to manage
 > > an identified incompatibility, either patch their kernel, patch their
 > > OMPI, or publish an errata. That is the role of a distribution.
 > 
 > RHEL has said, multiple times, that they rely on OpenFabrics to do the Right Thing.  They don't do a lot of testing, validating, etc.

In that case OFED plays the role of distribution.
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