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

[Tzachi Dar]

Can you please send all your patches as one diff file (attached) against
the OFED trunk?

Thanks
Tzachi 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org 
> [mailto:ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Sean Hefty
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 3:29 AM
> To: Hefty, Sean; ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: [ofw] [PATCH 0/7] prepare trunk for winverb support
> 
> 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>
> 
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