[ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-rc2 release is available

[Woodruff, Robert J]

Just because the code is not upstream does not mean it is crap, it just might be coded in a way that the kernel people would like done differently. 
Nvidia drivers are not upstream either, but lots of people use them.

-----Original Message-----
From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch at infradead.org] 
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 7:50 AM
To: Woodruff, Robert J <robert.j.woodruff at intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>; Vladimir Sokolovsky <vlad at dev.mellanox.co.il>; ewg at lists.openfabrics.org; linux-rdma at vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-rc2 release is available

So in plain words: Intel abuses their influence in OFED to ship crap that has absolutely no chance to get upstream in the current form instead of working with the community to improve infrastructure.

That's exactly what I guessed, thanks for confirming.