Re: [ewg] [PATCH v4] IB Core: RAW ETH support

Moni Shoua
2010-06-16T15:47:41Z

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> It doesn't even look like this patch and the mlx4 patch were ever posted
> to linux-rdma. Only to the EWG list.
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Not 100% correct. See thread from April 30.
Patches to core, libibverbs and NES driver were presented there.

> Granted our dev process may not be documented, but I always assumed the
> general idea was to get changes accepted upstream, then pull into ofed.
> OFED is just a mechanism to make top-of-tree linux work on distro
> kernels. There are some exceptions, but this stuff shouldn't be an
> exception.
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> We should all follow this "upstream first" process IMO.