Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:19:32 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/22] Firmware interface code for IB device. |
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:15:09AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 08:32:28AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > > Arjan> The bigger issue is: if people can't be bothered to do > > Arjan> those steps, why would they be bothered to do this for > > Arjan> maintenance and bugfixes etc etc? Basically it's now > > Arjan> already a de-facto unmaintained driver.... > > > > I don't think that's really a fair statement. The IBM people have > > been active and responsive in maintaining their driving in the > > openib.org svn tree. However, they asked me to post their driver for > > review because it would be difficult for them to do it. > > Checking stuff into a private svn tree is vastly different from posting > to lkml in public. In fact, it looks like the svn tree is so far ahead > of the in-kernel stuff, that most people are just using it instead of > the in-kernel code. > > I know at least one company has asked a distro to just accept the svn > snapshot over the in-kernel IB code, which makes me wonder if the > in-kernel stuff is even useful to people? Why have it, if companies > insist on using the out-of-tree stuff instead?
The openib tree isn't private. It's mostly just a staging area for development. Any company that wants it included into a distro release is completely clueless. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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