[ofa-general] Re: [ewg] OFED 1.2.c-11 is available

[Or Gerlitz]

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> In 1.2.c most patches are backported from 2.6.23.
> Some have been submitted for 2.6.24.
> Some have been carried from 1.2.

I see mistakes in the process here: for example patches that solve IB 
bugs in 2.6.22 should have been submitted to -stable and this ofed 
version need to be based on 2.6.22.x instead of 2.6.22 . Another way to 
say this is that if patch is not important enough to be submitted to 
-stable, then ofed can go out without it as well.

Note that for technologies such as Ethernet, Fibre Channel, you named 
it, there is not "enterprise distribution" other then the commercial 
distributions, and distributions are doing very well with using  -stable 
kernels. Similarly the same for user space packages.

So at the end of the day, OFED kernel, as was stated clearly by the 
founder committee, OFED is going to vanish and not exist.

The point I am trying to make here, is that wrong processes which are 
possible only b/c OFED temporally exists (or at least in the form its 
running now) in this time frame, create confusion for the people who 
merge IB drivers into the distro kernels, for ISVs, for users, etc etc 
(it bring cases like: why that X works in this way on kernel.org and in 
another way on OFED? why does this API is different? etc etc)

Or.