RE: Upcoming libibverbs release

Steve Wise
2016-06-29T18:46:16Z

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 05:09:20AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yep, that would be great.
>
> Jason

I have a concern about the loss of control that might happen. For example, now
I can release a new libcxgb4 whenever it works for me. I wouldn't want to give
that up and require everyone's blessing/coordination to release bug fixes that
are completely in libcxgb4. How can we handle this with a single repo for all
the provider libs?

Steve.