[openib-general] Re: Please don't commit without maintainer approval

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Shirley Ma <xma at us.ibm.com>:
> >As we've said many times, the kernel is not released by openib.  It is
> >released by Linus.  The neighbour destructor patch was in kernel 2.6.17-rc1.
> 
> I meant the IPoIB destructor work around patch for kernel less than 2.6.17.

This has been discussed here:
http://openib.org/pipermail/openib-general/2006-April/019563.html

> It is in 2.6.17-rc1 already?

Yes.

> It's pretty confusing. When I looked at openib-1.0-rc2 release tree, there is an
> ipoib directory, which doesn't include IPoIB destructor patch.
> /gen2/tags/openib-1.0-rc2/src/linux-kernel/infiniband/ulp/ipoib

This has been discussed here:
http://openib.org/pipermail/openib-general/2006-April/019855.html


> Sorry for bother you same question many times.
> Why ipoib is a part of openib-1.0-rc2 when it's already a part of kernel release,
> and they are not the same?

Basically, src/linux-kernel is under 1.0 directory by mistake.
I agree it should be removed.

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