________________________________________ From: linux-rdma-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <linux-rdma-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2017 2:17 PM To: Paul Grun Cc: Hefty, Sean; Woodruff, Robert J; Christoph Hellwig; linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ewg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-rc2 release is available On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 07:07:02PM +0000, Paul Grun wrote: > >The founding imputus for OFA was to get this RDMA code upstream, so OFA > >should not be spending their resources supporting non-upstream works. > > That's actually not true. The founding impetus was to prevent the > nascent InfiniBand industry from fracturing under the weight of > multiple software implementations of the verbs semantics described > in the IB specs. The solution to that was to provide a single > software stack provided by the Alliance. I think you are splitting hairs, from the start alliance members focused their efforts upstream (eg Roland getting Linus to accept drivers/infiniband). 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 -- 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
