From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED 4.8-rc2 release is available Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 14:17:21 -0600 Message-ID: <20170504201721.GA24298@obsidianresearch.com> References: <590096A3.5090107@dev.mellanox.co.il> <20170427070657.GA13585@infradead.org> <20170504084933.GA1359@infradead.org> <9C6B67F36DCAFC479B1CF6A967258A8C7E953FA6@ORSMSX115.amr.corp.intel.com> <20170504153003.GA854@obsidianresearch.com> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB1199FA@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> <20170504174105.GB20449@obsidianresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Paul Grun Cc: "Hefty, Sean" , "Woodruff, Robert J" , Christoph Hellwig , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "ewg-ZwoEplunGu1OwGhvXhtEPSCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org 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 -- 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