[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 02/22] Firmware interface code for IB device.
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Sat Feb 18 10:19:32 PST 2006
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:15:09AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 08:32:28AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > Arjan> The bigger issue is: if people can't be bothered to do
> > Arjan> those steps, why would they be bothered to do this for
> > Arjan> maintenance and bugfixes etc etc? Basically it's now
> > Arjan> already a de-facto unmaintained driver....
> >
> > I don't think that's really a fair statement. The IBM people have
> > been active and responsive in maintaining their driving in the
> > openib.org svn tree. However, they asked me to post their driver for
> > review because it would be difficult for them to do it.
>
> Checking stuff into a private svn tree is vastly different from posting
> to lkml in public. In fact, it looks like the svn tree is so far ahead
> of the in-kernel stuff, that most people are just using it instead of
> the in-kernel code.
>
> I know at least one company has asked a distro to just accept the svn
> snapshot over the in-kernel IB code, which makes me wonder if the
> in-kernel stuff is even useful to people? Why have it, if companies
> insist on using the out-of-tree stuff instead?
The openib tree isn't private. It's mostly just a staging area for
development. Any company that wants it included into a distro release
is completely clueless.
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