Re: rdma-core stable releases

Leon Romanovsky
2017-11-13T07:08:56Z

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On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 08:01:48AM +0100, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote:
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> Le 10/11/2017 à 22:14, Jason Gunthorpe a écrit :
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:24:55PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> >> More or less, you wrote everything that I expected, just need to post it
> >> as a patch so I can apply it to rdma-core.
> > Also please describe how to get patches into -stable, eg similar to
> > the kernel, mark with fixes and cc the stable maintainer.
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> > There should also be absolutely no ABI changes in the -stable branchs.
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> Agreed. Ideally we would add something to CI so that it detects ABI breake on stable branches.
> I know SUSE has something like this for maintenance fixes. I'll look into it.

DPDK runs ABI compliance checker.
http://ispras.linuxbase.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker

I would love to see it running for rdma-core.

Thanks

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> Nicolas

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