On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:47:59AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:31:49AM -0700, 'Christoph Hellwig' wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:43:08AM -0500, Steve Wise wrote: > > > I recommend we release something for OFED-4.8 to pull in. That > > > might help flush out the release process earlier rather than > > > later. Either way, though, I want the latest libcxgb4 in OFED-4.8 > > > to support the new chelsio HW. But we talked about the repo being > > > "always stable", so I guess the OFA could just pull the code and > > > use it? Still would be nice to have it released... > > > > Yeah, I'd much prefer to release early, release often. If people > > don't feel quite comfortable with the new bundle yet we can officially > > call it a pre-release. > > One of the best ways to get it tested is to get it to go through the > full OFED process. No problem, I'll grab all remaining patches from ML tomorrow and we will be ready for first release. > > Woody, what could we do to help make that happen? Do you know of any > blocker? > > I think this will be the best for everyone. I also predict that OFED > will be under pressure to quickly take up the new drivers that will > land in 4.9, and their user space will live in rdma-core. > > I also propose we give someone from the OFED team repo access and they > can maintain a public branch for ofed-4.8 with any backported fixes. First of them, they need to express desire :) Let's start from pull request model and see if it is enough/not enough. > > Jason
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