From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dennis Dalessandro Subject: Re: [PULL REQUEST] Please pull rdma.git Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 07:44:15 -0400 Message-ID: <20160527114414.GA27420@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com> References: <166c87fa-09ef-f170-7351-d18062bc25cf@redhat.com> <20160527045157.GW25500@leon.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160527045157.GW25500-2ukJVAZIZ/Y@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Doug Ledford , Linus Torvalds , linux-rdma List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 07:51:57AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: >On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 06:34:28PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: >> Hi Linus, >> >> This is the second group of code for the 4.7 merge window. It looks >> large, but only in one sense. I'll get to that in a minute. The list >> of changes here breaks down as follows: >> >> Round two of 4.7 merge window patches >> > ><...> > >> - The big item on the list: hfi1 driver updates, plus moving the hfi1 >> driver out of staging <- everything else > >Hi Doug and Linus, > >The move hfi1 from the staging is a right thing, it was there a long >time and it is almost ready. No, not almost, it is totally ready. We have bent over backwards to go well beyond what was in the TODO list. This is a clean, stable, and well performing driver. >However the timing of this move puzzle me, we are in the process of ABI >change [1, 2] as a response to security alert [3]. Moves like this with >proprietary char device and ABI scheme different from whole RDMA stack >will limit the ABI work without real need. The driver sitting in staging or not has no impact on the ABI re-design. They are two completely separate issues. >Will this driver be **forced** to adjust to new ABI scheme whenever it >comes? If it is not possible, the better solution to converge on ABI change will be >to leave this driver in staging/rdma and wait till proper solution will be accepted. I think Doug has made it perfectly clear that hfi1 will need to adopt the new ABI when it is available, and we are certainly on board with that. -Denny -- 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