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

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 07:07:02PM +0000, Paul Grun wrote:
> >The founding imputus for OFA was to get this RDMA code upstream, so OFA
> >should not be spending their resources supporting non-upstream works.
> 
> That's actually not true.  The founding impetus was to prevent the
> nascent InfiniBand industry from fracturing under the weight of
> multiple software implementations of the verbs semantics described
> in the IB specs.  The solution to that was to provide a single
> software stack provided by the Alliance.

I think you are splitting hairs, from the start alliance members
focused their efforts upstream (eg Roland getting Linus to accept
drivers/infiniband).

Jason