From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: rdma-core stable releases Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:43:58 -0700 Message-ID: <20171114194358.GN4263@ziepe.ca> References: <20171106182756.GD18802@ziepe.ca> <6012d1c3-cd18-25e8-c5ae-3d678142177b@suse.de> <54347E5A035A054EAE9D05927FB467F9B61778A9@ORSMSX101.amr.corp.intel.com> <20171110202455.GP18825@mtr-leonro.local> <20171110211448.GF17451@ziepe.ca> <1eba9063-80a4-ad9d-4adf-93770b9ed7c9@suse.de> <20171113070856.GZ18825@mtr-leonro.local> <20171114110558.GX18825@mtr-leonro.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171114110558.GX18825-U/DQcQFIOTAAJjI8aNfphQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin , "Davis, Arlin R" , "Kalderon, Michal" , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Doug Ledford , "Elior, Ariel" , "Rahman, Ameen" , "Amrani, Ram" , "Radzi, Amit" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 01:05:58PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 11:27:40AM +0100, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote: > > > > > > Le 13/11/2017 à 08:08, Leon Romanovsky a écrit : > > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 08:01:48AM +0100, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote: >> >> >> 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. >>> >>> There should also be absolutely no ABI changes in the -stable branchs. >> >> 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 > > > Got the scripts ready for this BUT the versions available in docker of abi-dump/abi-compliance-checker are not compatible. > > As both are GPLv2, could I import them into buildlib ? > > I'm not a lawyer, Our dual license policy is relevant for source > code and build scripts only. The tools for our CI can be GPLv2-only. Right, but it is very important that any important code come with the right license files in COPYING.* so you'd have to at least add COPYING.LGPL and update debian/copyright and COPYING.md The files look small enough that we could choose to include them in buildlib. 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