Re: When IBoE will be merged to upstream?

Roland Dreier
2010-06-23T23:23:47Z

> This is actually a continue of the RAW_ET(XXXX) issue. We want to
> make a submition of the patches to the upstream, but there is not
> support for IB transport in Ethernet devices, and the mlx4_en drivers
> version is a bit outdated 1.4.1.1 in upstream and 1.5.1 in the OFED
> There is also missing VLAN support that already present in the OFED.
> When do you planning to submit changes from OFED to upstream?

- I do not search for more things to merge upstream. I have enough
work reviewing things that are sent to me. So I will never look
through OFED for changes.

- I do not handle the mlx4_en driver. Changes for mlx4_en should go to
netdev and Dave Miller.

- I will try to get back to the IBoE changes when I have time, and I
will admit that my time to spend as RDMA maintainer is nowhere near
full time and less than it was in the past.

- I did allocate a fair amount of time to spend on IBoE recently but
unfortunately the patches were not really in a suitable state to
merge, and I exhausted that time slice before we reached the end.
When patch sets sit outside of the upstream kernel and are shipped in
OFED for months and years, it would probably make upstream merging
easier if that time was used to fix the patch set.

- Specifically for the IBoE patches, shouldn't someone have realized
that having a device-specific interface to do the standard mapping of
GID to Ethernet address makes no sense?
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