Re: Announce: libibverbs-1.2.0

[Doug Ledford <dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

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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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