From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: Upcoming libibverbs release Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 12:34:14 -0600 Message-ID: <20160629183414.GD17031@obsidianresearch.com> 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> <20160629120920.GA24151@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160629120920.GA24151-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Christoph Hellwig 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 Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 05:09:20AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. Yep, that would be great. Jason -- 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