On 10/12/2016 1:37 PM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> 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.
I wouldn't mind a pre-release, but I know for a fact that Jarod is
working on proper distro specific spec file(s), systemd units, etc. So,
I wouldn't call it a release because until we sort out the specifics of
how we want the package to build/look/etc., it might change. It would
be bad from for release 1 to have things packaged one way, and release 2
to totally revamp that. We need to give Jarod time to sort through what
he's working on and post it to the list.
>>
>> 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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