From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Upcoming libibverbs release Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 05:09:20 -0700 Message-ID: <20160629120920.GA24151@infradead.org> References: <3b89c411-72be-ddc5-5ebf-009eeee29692@redhat.com> <4ec1d8e6-a908-bb49-a137-415856ec6faa@dev.mellanox.co.il> <20160627181758.GD23540@obsidianresearch.com> <20160628050246.GB3584@leon.nu> <20160628162028.GA27518@obsidianresearch.com> <20160628170549.GE3584@leon.nu> <20160628211858.GB5786@obsidianresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160628211858.GB5786-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Leon Romanovsky , Yishai Hadas , Doug Ledford , linux-rdma , Yishai Hadas , Matan Barak , Majd Dibbiny , "talal-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 03:18:58PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Consider the kAPI work to add the new MR stuff that Christoph > did. That would have been a total disaster if they didn't update all > the drivers to work with it at the same time. > > Userspace is no different, and the responsibility falls with the patch > author to oversee that process and get it done before merging. Yes. I think we need to a) put all userspace providers into the libibverbs repository, and b) require patches to update all of them. That's the only way to have coherent releases and avoid bitrot. -- 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