[ewg] OFED 5.3 backporting updates ??

[Adit Ranadive]

On 10/7/19, 10:02 AM, "Davis, Arlin R" <arlin.r.davis at intel.com> wrote:

>> I'm not sure if the backports for vmware driver can get into OFED 5.3.
>> I have already sent them upstream but most likely won't be added until Linux
>> 5.5. These also require an updated rdma-core repository.
>> So, it's possible that a rdma-core release with those patches may not be
>> ready until 5.5RC1 (a few weeks away).
>> 
>> Or can we include backports to rdma-core in OFED now too?
>> 
> 
> Are you saying these changes will require ABI changes to rdma_core? 

No but the driver changes only make sense if rdma-core is updated
with the required vmw_pvrdma patches.

- Adit