Re: Upcoming libibverbs release

Jason Gunthorpe
2016-06-29T18:34:14Z

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