Re: Upcoming libibverbs release

Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-29T12:09:20Z

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 03:18:58PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Consider the kAPI work to add the new MR stuff that Christoph
> did. That would have been a total disaster if they didn't update all
> the drivers to work with it at the same time.
>
> Userspace is no different, and the responsibility falls with the patch
> author to oversee that process and get it done before merging.

Yes. I think we need to a) put all userspace providers into the
libibverbs repository, and b) require patches to update all of them.
That's the only way to have coherent releases and avoid bitrot.