[openib-general] RFC: SDP plans

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:52 -0500, Hal Rosenstock wrote:

> > > Having a stable, performant SDP in Rel. 1.0 available from Novel and 
> > > RedHat is absolutely critical for Wall Street and others.
> > 
> > Then release 1.0 will need to wait until SPD has been updated.
> 
> I thought the mantra was whatever was ready for the train not the other
> way 'round...

Well, here are the facts we have before us.

      * SDP is in reasonable shape now, but Michael has a lot of work
        planned for it before he makes an upstream kernel submission.
      * That work isn't going to be ready for 2.6.17, unless a miracle
        happens.
      * Given our current tentative schedule, 2.6.17 will be the current
        kernel.org kernel when we release 1.0.
      * Michael has a suggestion for making libsdp work in the face of a
        potentially unstable kernel ABI, and I have a suggestion for
        making his suggestion more robust.
      * Whatever we do, it's apparently going to be too late for the
        next round of enterprise distros from the big vendors.

So.  We can move the 1.0 release date to "whenever SDP gets into an
upstream kernel" without knowing when that might be, or we can do the
best we can with what we have now.

My preference is strongly for the latter.

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