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

["Coulter, Susan K" <skc-YOWKrPYUwWM@public.gmane.org>]

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From: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org <linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org> on behalf of Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2017 2:17 PM
To: Paul Grun
Cc: Hefty, Sean; Woodruff, Robert J; Christoph Hellwig; linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org; ewg-ZwoEplunGu1OwGhvXhtEPSCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.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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