[ofa-general] upstream stable merge request for OFED 1.4

[Bart Van Assche]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Lars Ellenberg<lars.ellenberg at linbit.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 07:34:32PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Lars Ellenberg<lars.ellenberg at linbit.com> wrote:
>> > maybe I'm doing things wrong.
>> > but the last merge with upstream for
>> > git://git.openfabrics.org/ofed_1_4/linux-2.6.git
>> > appears to have been 2.6.27.
>> >
>> > there is a reason for the kernel.org stable branches.
>> >
>> > if you do not plan to upgrade 2.6.28 -> 2.6.31 in the near future,
>> > please consider to merge with
>> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git
>> >
>> > current upstream 2.6.27 stable is v2.6.27.26
>> >  958 files changed, 13481 insertions(+), 6784 deletions(-)
>>
>> Hello Lars,
>>
>> As you probably know any patch submitted for inclusion in a kernel.org
>> stable branch must have been accepted first for inclusion in the
>> latest vanilla kernel. So the above question is equivalent to whether
>> the development of the OFED kernel components should continue as a
>> separate distribution or whether all patches should be submitted for
>> inclusion in the latest Linux kernel. This topic has been discussed
>> several times on this mailing list. You can find the most recent
>> discussion of this topic here:
>> http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/general/2009-April/059080.html.
>
> Thanks for that link.
>
> But what I actually was referring to was the tree exposed at
> git://git.openfabrics.org/ofed_1_4/linux-2.6.git
>
> and why that one does neither track kernel.org upstream,
> nor the 2.6.27.y stable series,
> but is stuck on the known buggy 2.6.27.
>
> of course I can easily merge in the stable 2.6.27.26 in my
> local checkout of ofed_1_4. I already did. no problem there.
>
> but I was wondering about the status of the
> git://git.openfabrics.org/ofed_1_4/linux-2.6.git tree,
> whether that is supposed to be the "most uptodate official ofed_1_4"
> kernel, and whether or not it is going to be updated to either track
> some stable series, or linux-2.6 master.

Is anyone running a kernel compiled from
git://git.openfabrics.org/ofed_1_4/linux-2.6.git ? AFAIK all
InfiniBand users install the OFED-*.tgz distribution on top of an
existing Linux distribution (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, or vanilla 2.6.27.x
kernel).

It would be interesting to know which of the 2.6.27-stable patches
affect any of the InfiniBand source files or kernel headers that are
distributed through OFED, and whether any of these patches are not
already included in the OFED distribution.

Bart.