On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 05:34:35PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote: > > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
