netdev - RE: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

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Message-ID: <9C6B67F36DCAFC479B1CF6A967258A8C7DE14CE8@ORSMSX115.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Sep 2016 22:03:32 +0000
From:   "Woodruff, Robert J" <robert.j.woodruff@...el.com>
To:     Adit Ranadive <aditr@...are.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
CC:     "dledford@...hat.com" <dledford@...hat.com>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        pv-drivers <pv-drivers@...are.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Jorgen S. Hansen" <jhansen@...are.com>,
        Aditya Sarwade <asarwade@...are.com>,
        George Zhang <georgezhang@...are.com>,
        Bryan Tan <bryantan@...are.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

Adit wrote,
>Thanks. So does this mean that the libraries distributed via OFED (openfabrics.org) will be now from the rdma-plumbing git tree?
>Or is the switch to happen only when distros start shipping with the 4.9 kernel by default?

We are still discussing this within the OFA EWG for the OFED releases. I suspect that if all of the maintainers of the user-space 
packages agree to merge into and support this new merged repo-model, then OFED would eventually base their OFED user-space packages
on that repo, rather than the individual repo's that are used today. The question is, when. Work has now just started on OFED-4.8,
that is based on the kernel.org 4.8 kernel. If this new scheme works with kernel.org 4.8, then it is possible that it could go into that OFED-4.8
Release, but again, we are still looking at the new scheme and evaluating how it affects the community OFED.

Woody