From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: rdma-core release process questions Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:14:44 -0700 Message-ID: <20161117051444.GA17784@obsidianresearch.com> References: <13AA599688F47243B14FCFCCC2C803BB10AB79D5@fmsmsx104.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <13AA599688F47243B14FCFCCC2C803BB10AB79D5-96pTJSsuoYQ64kNsxIetb7fspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Nikolova, Tatyana E" Cc: Doug Ledford , "leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org" , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 04:56:45AM +0000, Nikolova, Tatyana E wrote: > We are submitting patches to the kernel space driver i40iw and to > the user space plugin libi40iw, which is currently part of > rdma-core. Some of the changes need to be coordinated so that they > appear in both kernel space and user space in corresponding > releases. We have some questions regarding the process about > submitting patches to rdma-core which have dependencies on kernel > patches. Incompatible changes are very strongly discouraged, just don't do it. > 4) Is each rdma-core release going to correspond to a specific kernel version? No. All versions must work with all kernels. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html