RE: Upcoming libibverbs release

Steve Wise
2016-06-29T20:44:31Z

> > > But, even if you didn't have this, this would just follow the same
> > release
> > procedure
> > > that is used by the kernel.
> >
> > What do you mean?
>
> You don't have individual releases for the kernel drivers. They all just get
grouped
> into the next kernel release.
>

Yes, and packaging all this into one libuberverbs is fine, as long as we can do
point/bug fix releases as needed when individual providers have key fixes they
need pushed into distros...

> FWIW, libfabric uses a single repo, and actually builds the providers directly
into the
> library. That model has been working fine, and the benefits far away the
negatives.
> I think the concern here is being overstated