Re: [ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-rc2 release is available

On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 05:34:35PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote:

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This is exactly why we so strongly discourage this out of tree stuff -
getting something unmergable in OFED is *NOT* Job Done, Time to Go
Home. Down this path just creates another Lustre mess.

Actually, this may be 'job done'.  No individual or company is
obligated to provide upstream software for any of their hardware.
OFA decides what to ship in their software products, not the greater
linux kernel community.

The founding imputus for OFA was to get this RDMA code upstream, so
OFA should not be spending their resources supporting non-upstream
works.

Individual companies can decide if out of tree maintenance is more
cost effective than trying to merge code upstream.  Because that's
what this ultimately comes down to.

Sure. Outside the OFA and its works please.

Jason
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