[openib-general] Re: OpenIb 1.0 release components

[Moni Levy]

On 2/24/06, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> Quoting Moni Levy <monil at voltaire.com>:
> > > > While this might be a good idea for modules such as iSER
> > > > which are not currently part of the mainline kernel tree,
> > > > it is in my opinion clearly not a good idea to replace the
> > > > modules which *are* distributed with the mainline kernel.
> > >
> > > I agree, for the most part.
> > >
> > > What I have in mind for non-upstream kernel support is this:
> > >
> > >      * We have to ship out-of-tree drivers, simply because there's only
> > >        one driver in the upstream kernel, and the others are not yet
> > >        ready for submission.
> > >      * Some kernel components are clearly not contenders for shipping.
> > >        One example is kdapl, because it appears to be dead due to
> > >        upstream veto.
> > >      * Others might be reasonable, if they (a) see some testing and (b)
> > >        don't intrusively patch the core kernel.  I'm thinking here
> > >        about iSER and, to a lesser extent, SDP.
> >
> > I would like to add another point also. It looks like that in this
> > round of the major distribution releases they will just not be able to
> > include the 1.0 release due to time constraints, so the only way to
> > use 1.0 release (or newer) will be to replace them in the kernel.
> >
> > Moni
>
> I dont really understand this last point. What do you mean when you say
> "replace them in kernel"? Replace what?

Is there an option that the distros would like to get more stable code
that is not in kernel.org (yet) ?

>
> I understand it why you might want to add out of kernel modules such as iSER.
> My point is they must work with core components included in kernel, not
> with core out of the svn tree.

Now I understand.

>
> I gather Brian here agrees.
>
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> Michael S. Tsirkin
> Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies
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