Re: rdma-core stable releases

Leon Romanovsky
2017-11-11T07:46:25Z

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On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 09:21:24PM +0000, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> Jason wrote,
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> >There should also be absolutely no ABI changes in the -stable branchs.
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> I agree and stable branch should be for bug fixes only, new features should be only included in the master branch that is for the next major release of rdma-core.
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> >Ultimately I think people will settle on a couple of revisions that ended up being used in distros, OFED, MOFED, etc.
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> I also agree, most likely not every new rdma-core release will also need to have a stable branch. Probably just the ones that are ending up in distros. I think this is what the kernel does too,
> Right ?

I'm not sure about it.
For example LTS trees are created primarily for Android [1].

Various distros take new kernel every year or two, so it limits number of stable branches.
In our case, MOFED has 6-months cycle. I don't know anything about OFED cycles.

Thanks

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/738225/

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