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SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/22] Firmware interface code for IB device.
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    Greg> Checking stuff into a private svn tree is vastly different
Greg> from posting to lkml in public. In fact, it looks like the
Greg> svn tree is so far ahead of the in-kernel stuff, that most
Greg> people are just using it instead of the in-kernel code.

It's not a private svn tree -- the IBM ehca development is available
to anyone via svn at https://openib.org/svn/gen2/trunk/src/linux-kernel/infiniband/hw/ehca

Greg> I know at least one company has asked a distro to just
Greg> accept the svn snapshot over the in-kernel IB code, which
Greg> makes me wonder if the in-kernel stuff is even useful to
Greg> people? Why have it, if companies insist on using the
Greg> out-of-tree stuff instead?

The IB driver stack is still in its early stages, so although I'm
pushing for things to be merged as fast as possible, the unfortunate
fact is that lots of things that people want to use (including the IBM
ehca driver) are not upstream and are not ready to go upstream yet.
But that doesn't mean we should give up on merging them.

Distro politics are just distro politics -- and there will always be
pressure on distros to ship stuff that's not upstream yet.

- R.
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