[ofa-general] Re: [ewg] RE: RHEL 5.3 and OFED 1.4.x

[Tziporet Koren]

Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> Personally I do not have a problem with including it, since MPI is
> an isolated component and does not effect the core stack,
> but I thought that we had discussed in Sonoma last year
> not including major new features in point releases to
> reduce the QA that is needed. And, in general I think that
> is the way that kernel.org works, point releases are just for
> bug fixes.
>
> In any case, lets discuss it again in the EWG on Monday.
>
>   
I will add this to the agenda
Note that we will start working to add RH 5.3 backports now to see how 
much effort it is

Tziporet