[ofa-general] Probable bug in mlx4 driver

[Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin]

Le 17/04/2009 13:05, Or Gerlitz a écrit :
> Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin<devel-ofed at morey-chaisemartin.com>  wrote:
>
>> This patch goes on Linus' tree (or ROland's Infiniband tree on kernel.org)
>> Moreover, I was wondering what are the differences between Infiniband in Linus' and in
>> OFED's tree? I'm a bit lost between all the backport / kernel patches plus git patches
>> which are on one side but not the other...
>
> Many of the patches applied by ofed are were never reviewed nor
> submitted for acceptance and I think this speaks for itself. You have
> mentioned that you use 2.6.29 - may I ask what makes you work with
> ofed and not with the upstream IB bits? please note that the mainline
> IB drivers are compatible with the user space libraries installed
> through the distro and/or ofed.
>
> Or.
>
>

Two main reasons:
-Main one is we also work with RHEL (4 and 5) and as we repackage ofa_kernel we would rather use only one version accross all distributions.
- SDP is missing from Linux mainstream

Nicolas