[ewg] RE: [ofa-general] OFED Jan 14 meeting summary on RC2readiness

[Sean Hefty]

>When we started OFED we decided to enable new features that can be in
>lower stability level, in case they do not harm the overall stability of
>the OFED release.
>I think XRC fulfill this criteria.

XRC changes the verbs interfaces and code.  It increases the risk of
instability.  Changes to IPoIB increase the risk of instability.  Something like
SDP doesn't, since it's an entirely separate module.

>From my view, OFED is enabling new features over stability.  I would rather see
OFED pull code from upstream with patches added on only for backports and fixes.

- Sean