[Openib-windows] Interoperability of the current stack and the Linux 1.8.X stack

[Tzachi Dar]

Committed at revision 417.

Thanks
Tzachi 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openib-windows-bounces at openib.org 
> [mailto:openib-windows-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Fabian Tillier
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 6:55 PM
> To: Erez Cohen
> Cc: Nimrod Gindi; openib-windows at openib.org
> Subject: Re: [Openib-windows] Interoperability of the current 
> stack and the Linux 1.8.X stack
> 
> Hi Erez,
> 
> On 7/10/06, Erez Cohen <erezc at mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> > Hi Fab,
> >
> > I think all gen1 and probably early gen2 had this issues. 
> Since it was 
> > released some time ago there is no much we can do to 
> modify/fix these 
> > releases. I'm not sure about other SMs.
> > The reason people are still using this releases is the OS 
> support and 
> > stability. New releases do not support "old" OS and kernels.
> >
> > Since this fix is not active by default and requires 
> activation via a 
> > registry key I think it is not that risky and will allow 
> users to work 
> > with the Windows stack alongside Linux stack.
> 
> I guess that's fine.  I would have rather seen a patch update 
> to OpenSM on the older releases, but I guess this makes 
> sense.  We should figure out what our backward compatibility 
> policy is going to be, so that we can remove code like this 
> when it makes sense to.
> 
> Anyhow, Tzachi please apply with the minor formatting change 
> I emailed you about.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Fab
> 
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