Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760171Ab0HELT7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2010 07:19:59 -0400 Received: from mail.mellanox.co.il ([194.90.237.43]:38070 "EHLO mellanox.co.il" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759040Ab0HELT4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2010 07:19:56 -0400 From: Tziporet Koren To: Roland Dreier , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 14:19:53 +0300 Subject: RE: InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.36 Thread-Topic: InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.36 Thread-Index: Acs0LX+eamdEM0CFR7C0YygcQAs0qgAYnr1Q Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1521 Lines: 35 On 8/5/2010 2:33 AM, Roland Dreier wrote: Hi Roland, > > Here are a few topics I'm tracking that are not ready in time for the > 2.6.36 window and will need to wait for 2.6.37 at least: > > - XRC. While I think we made significant progress here, the fact is > that this is not ready to merge at the beginning of the merge > window, and so we'll need to keep working on it and wait for the > next merge window. I think this is just blocked on me at the > moment. Jack did all the changes you asked for and submitting the V3 patches on 2010/05/19, which was long enough before the window. What is the reason it will not be part of 2.6.36 kernel? > > - IBoE. Same as XRC; we made significant progress (and I opened an > iboe branch to track this), and I think we have finally gotten the > user-kernel interface nailed down yet, but it's just too late. Eli sent the user space patch that was the last technical debate last week. He will also send a new patch-set in day or two. This feature was under a lot of technical review from the community. Please consider including it in 2.6.36 after all. In general - none of our new features going to be included and I wish to understand the reason behind it (I hope it's not personal :-) regards Tziporet -- 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/