From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Wise Subject: Re: [RFC] =?windows-1252?Q?=96_Proposal_for_new_process_?= =?windows-1252?Q?for_OFED_releases?= Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:16:13 -0600 Message-ID: <4EDE31BD.7090103@opengridcomputing.com> References: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A8237323FC20F5@ORSMSX102.amr.corp.intel.com> <4EDC6D4A.7060407@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4EDC6D4A.7060407-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Or Gerlitz Cc: "Hefty, Sean" , Tziporet Koren , "ewg-ZwoEplunGu1OwGhvXhtEPSCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org" , "linux-rdma (linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org)" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On 12/05/2011 01:05 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote: > > To be concrete/constructive here, a per IB stack module individual has to be assigned for that backporting, which > doesn't mean "make IB code from kernel X to build under kernel Y" - lets > see if we have people to actually do that. > > For example, on the iser space, and for the stack provided by Mellanox to customers - I took the approach of > iser_backport(X,Y) = ~Y --- which means that if I have to backport the iser code from kernel X into kernel Y, I > simply use the iser code that comes with Y > > I do that since Y has well/tight integrated iscsi stack for which the maintainers worked very hard to produce, and I > can't re-invent backporting that stack. > > The tilde in ~Y stands for slight verb changes that could arise from the backporting the rest of the IB stack has gone > through, from X to Y, so if the verb to create CQ has another param in X vs what it had in Y- I add it under the ~ > umbrella, is that clear? > What if you had some feature in kernel X's iser that you wanted in the kernel Y backport? By your definition, this wouldn't be possible it seems. If we're only using the functionality of kernel Y, then what's the point? Maybe I'm confused. Steve. -- 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