[ofa-general] Current list of Linux maintainers and their email info

Or Gerlitz ogerlitz at voltaire.com
Tue May 20 23:16:19 PDT 2008


Sean Hefty wrote:
> OFED needs a separate list of maintainers
Does this refer to the issue that the kernel IB maintainers can't be 
accountable for the OFED IB kernel code since it includes patches which 
were never reviewed nor merged upstream, as Roland noted in his comment 
(below)?!

Or

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Dreier [mailto:rdreier at cisco.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 03:02
> To: Or Gerlitz
> Cc: Sean Hefty; general at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: the so many IPoIB-UD failures 
> introduced by OFED 1.3
>
>  > Maybe its about time for the Linux IB maintainers to get a little 
> angry?!
>
> I'm not angry about it, although I have pretty much given up on trying
> to debug IPoIB issues seen running anything other than an upstream
> kernel.  It seems like the OFED maintainers, the enterprise distros and
> their customers should be more concerned about the failure of the OFED
> process -- clearly producing something much buggier and less reliable
> than the stock kernel is not what anyone wants.
>
>  - R.





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