[openib-general] drop mthca from svn?

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com>:
> Subject: Re: drop mthca from svn?
> 
> Roland Dreier wrote:
> >     James> If the code is moved, how can the OpenFabrics community be
> >     James> guaranteed that the entire software stack will remain under
> >     James> a dual BSD/GPL license?
> > 
> > You can't guarantee that someone won't come along and write some IB
> > driver and get it merged upstream without a BSD license.  So there's
> > not much we can do anyway.
> 
> Such a driver wouldn't be an OpenFabrics driver though.
> 
> My only concern with this is its effect on backport patches, since most users 
> are not running the later kernels.

I agree. However most users really want a stale kernel - so
we really should take bugfixes from 2.6.18 and backport to 2.6.17.x
and 2.6.16.x. I might do this eventually - but I'm too busy now.
Our backport patches in OFED also solve this, in another way.

> I think only using the kernel org tree is 
> ideal for the more mature code though.  Developing code still requires a 
> separate repository.

Right. In git each developer has his own, and they get merged
as they mature.

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