Re: bug 1918 - openmpi broken due to rdma-cm changes

Roland Dreier
2010-02-06T00:54:30Z

> > Well, I think you are right. This kind of change seems appropriate to
> > me for mainline, but OFED/RHEL should carry a responsibility to manage
> > an identified incompatibility, either patch their kernel, patch their
> > OMPI, or publish an errata. That is the role of a distribution.
>
> RHEL has said, multiple times, that they rely on OpenFabrics to do the Right Thing. They don't do a lot of testing, validating, etc.

In that case OFED plays the role of distribution.
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