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

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 05:34:35PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> > This is exactly why we so strongly discourage this out of tree stuff -
> > getting something unmergable in OFED is *NOT* Job Done, Time to Go
> > Home. Down this path just creates another Lustre mess.
> 
> Actually, this may be 'job done'.  No individual or company is
> obligated to provide upstream software for any of their hardware.
> OFA decides what to ship in their software products, not the greater
> linux kernel community.

The founding imputus for OFA was to get this RDMA code upstream, so
OFA should not be spending their resources supporting non-upstream
works.

> Individual companies can decide if out of tree maintenance is more
> cost effective than trying to merge code upstream.  Because that's
> what this ultimately comes down to.

Sure. Outside the OFA and its works please.

Jason