[rds-devel] RDS code in OFED 1.3

Olaf Kirch olaf.kirch at oracle.com
Wed Nov 14 03:06:28 PST 2007



On Wednesday 14 November 2007 10:43, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> A distribution (=RH/SUSE/Oracle-Enterprise/Fedora/OFED) is not a place for
> if-package-version-X-is-not-fine-then-replace-it-with-package-version-Y
> 
> In a distribution one (=package maintainer and only he decides, here its
> Olaf) put a release of a package, period. RDS v3 is not released and the

No, I'm not the maintainer. I'm just a guy from the Oracle kernel team
helping out a little.

> maintainer said he did not look on the code. Hence, this code does not fit
> any distribution which is about to pass code freeze in a week or so.
> 
> More over, RDS has few issues in the process  to fix way before you want to
> put V3 anywhere and it seems that Olaf is working hard to do it, so lets
> try to put this argument behind us.

Having zerocopy support *and* stability aren't mutually exclusive goals.

Olaf
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