On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 09:21:24PM +0000, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: > Jason wrote, > > >There should also be absolutely no ABI changes in the -stable branchs. > > I agree and stable branch should be for bug fixes only, new features should be only included in the master branch that is for the next major release of rdma-core. > > >Ultimately I think people will settle on a couple of revisions that ended up being used in distros, OFED, MOFED, etc. > > I also agree, most likely not every new rdma-core release will also need to have a stable branch. Probably just the ones that are ending up in distros. I think this is what the kernel does too, > Right ? I'm not sure about it. For example LTS trees are created primarily for Android [1]. Various distros take new kernel every year or two, so it limits number of stable branches. In our case, MOFED has 6-months cycle. I don't know anything about OFED cycles. Thanks [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/738225/ > > -- > 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
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