Announce: libibverbs-1.2.0

Announce: libibverbs-1.2.0

[Doug Ledford]

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I left libibverbs-1.2.0-rc1 out for quite a while.  I"ve went ahead and
made that the official libibverbs-1.2.0 (with only a few minor changes,
most notably just to correct some issues with the version string in the
tarball provided RPM spec file, and a fix for one compile warning).
This is mainly just preparatory for some of the recent patches on the
mailing list.  I felt those warranted a different version because of
their complexity.

However, the tarball isn't up yet.  I can't push it until I get a new
login on the new server at OpenFabrics.org (since that's been the
historical homes of the libibverbs tarballs, although it could be moved
to the tarball location on kernel.org in the future).  That request is
in and I'll update people on the list when I can push the tarball out.

The git repo has been pushed though, so if you grab the git repo, have a
recent set of autotools on your own machine, and then run "./autogen.sh;
make libibverbs.spec; make; make dist" then you should end up with a
tarball for libibverbs-1.2.0.tar.gz that is close enough to the official
one to allow you to check it out while waiting on the official one.

You might be asking yourself "Why is he announcing this if the tarball
isn't up?  Couldn't he just wait?"  And the answer to that is that I'm
currently working on libibverbs patches.  I don't frequently switch my
concentration and focus away from the kernel to libibverbs, so now is a
good time to get any minor patches in that you would like to see in
libibverbs-1.2.1 (the major patch sets are already on list, and I'm not
expecting people to push things like that through based on this notice,
but if someone wants to tackle little things like the fact that the XRC
version of example programs, which often support test that are not in
XRC mode, often don't check to see if inline data is supported and
therefore fail to run on qib cards...we expect it not to work on qib
cards when doing XRC tests since qib doesn't support XRC, but on non-XRC
tests is would be nice if they worked wherever possible).  Since I would
like to have a proposed libibverbs-1.2.1 ready to go by early next week,
I thought I would give people as much notice as possible instead of
waiting for the login to get finalized.

Thanks!


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Re: Announce: libibverbs-1.2.0

[Doug Ledford]

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On 2/26/2016 12:01 PM, Doug Ledford wrote:
> I left libibverbs-1.2.0-rc1 out for quite a while.  I"ve went ahead and
> made that the official libibverbs-1.2.0 (with only a few minor changes,
> most notably just to correct some issues with the version string in the
> tarball provided RPM spec file, and a fix for one compile warning).
> This is mainly just preparatory for some of the recent patches on the
> mailing list.  I felt those warranted a different version because of
> their complexity.
> 
> However, the tarball isn't up yet.  I can't push it until I get a new
> login on the new server at OpenFabrics.org (since that's been the
> historical homes of the libibverbs tarballs, although it could be moved
> to the tarball location on kernel.org in the future).  That request is
> in and I'll update people on the list when I can push the tarball out.
> 
> The git repo has been pushed though, so if you grab the git repo, have a
> recent set of autotools on your own machine, and then run "./autogen.sh;
> make libibverbs.spec; make; make dist" then you should end up with a
> tarball for libibverbs-1.2.0.tar.gz that is close enough to the official
> one to allow you to check it out while waiting on the official one.
> 
> You might be asking yourself "Why is he announcing this if the tarball
> isn't up?  Couldn't he just wait?"  And the answer to that is that I'm
> currently working on libibverbs patches.  I don't frequently switch my
> concentration and focus away from the kernel to libibverbs, so now is a
> good time to get any minor patches in that you would like to see in
> libibverbs-1.2.1 (the major patch sets are already on list, and I'm not
> expecting people to push things like that through based on this notice,
> but if someone wants to tackle little things like the fact that the XRC
> version of example programs, which often support test that are not in
> XRC mode, often don't check to see if inline data is supported and
> therefore fail to run on qib cards...we expect it not to work on qib
> cards when doing XRC tests since qib doesn't support XRC, but on non-XRC
> tests is would be nice if they worked wherever possible).  Since I would
> like to have a proposed libibverbs-1.2.1 ready to go by early next week,
> I thought I would give people as much notice as possible instead of
> waiting for the login to get finalized.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

Push of the official 1.2.0 tarball is complete.


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