[ofw] RE: [PATCH 0/7] prepare trunk for winverb support

[Sean Hefty]

>The following patches add necessary changes to the trunk to support
>multiple filter drivers above an HCA.  These patches are derived from
>patches previously posted to the list and added to the winverb branch.
>
>The patches were created by comparing the winverb branch with the
>trunk and modifying them, rather than taking the various SVN commits
>to the winverb branch as a patch.  The result is that the patches
>end up being cleaner than using the svn commits themselves.
>
>Because winverbs support requires API changes to the UVP and kernel
>verbs interface, I would like to merge these changes into the trunk
>next week.  This ensures that the changes will be there before a 2.0
>release, plus provides increased testing to ensure that existing ULPs
>are unaffected.
>
>I have verified that the builds work for all winof supported platforms.
>I have been able to install the drivers and perform some simple tests
>using IPoIB and DAPL (ping, ttcp, dtest2, and cmtest) running checked
>versions of the drivers on a 32-bit system with mthca.
>
>I will happily commit these changes to SVN if the maintainers want to
>ack them, otherwise, I can wait for the maintainers to commit them.
>(Assuming that changes from feedback is minimal.)  Once these changes
>are in the trunk, it should be safe to pull the winverbs driver and
>library into the trunk as well.  (They would still not be part of
>any release at this point.)
>
>Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>

To simplify merging winverbs support into the trunk, I've updated the winverb
branch.  Files that exist in both the winverb branch and the trunk should now
match.  Changes to existing files are now captured in a series of patches that
have been placed under branches\winverbs\patches.

The patch files contain the latest set of changes that need to be applied to the
trunk to support winverbs.  See series.txt for the patch order.  The patches
have been updated slightly since the initial posting as testing has progressed.

- Sean