Re: [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-rc2 release is available

From: "Coulter, Susan K" <skc-YOWKrPYUwWM@public.gmane.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe
	<jgunthorpe-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>,
	Paul Grun <grun-WVYJKLFxKCc@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>,
	"linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org"
	<linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>,
	"ewg-ZwoEplunGu1OwGhvXhtEPSCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org"
	<ewg-ZwoEplunGu1OwGhvXhtEPSCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-rc2 release is available
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 23:47:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1493941651906.70721@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170504201721.GA24298-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>

The unpleasant fact is that the OFA has not been deeply involved, as an organization, in the development and distribution of OFED.
That may seem counter-intuitive, and it is certainly not appropriate, but it is the raw truth.
The EWG manages, tests, and releases OFED versions.
Until recently, that was all done without official review or approval from the larger OFA constituency.

There are many issues the OFA needs to get straight if it is to continue to contribute to the community in a positive way.
( and I fully acccept some folks would posit that the OFA has never contributed in a positive way )
This is one of them.

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From: linux-rdma-owner@vger.kernel.org <linux-rdma-owner@vger.kernel.org> on behalf of Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2017 2:17 PM
To: Paul Grun
Cc: Hefty, Sean; Woodruff, Robert J; Christoph Hellwig; linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org; ewg@lists.openfabrics.org
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
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