Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Developing across multiple areas of the kernel

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

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On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 04:10:57PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > The difference in maintainers style between netdev and RDMA causes to have long queue
> > (100+) of patches posted to the ML [2], which are not cross-checked in various CIs.
>
> It is possible to get 0-day to run against any arbitrary git tree, if
> you ask nicely. If same is true for the kernel-ci project. So if you
> are willing to do the merge work, you can get it tested.

0-day is checking my tree, so it is not the problem.

I don't see how kernel-ci can help me, because RDMA requires special
hardware to run it and it usually requires more than two endpoints (servers)
connected together.

My problem is related to changes in other trees for example netdev, which
can break RDMA functionality.

Technology wise, there are:
1. RoCE - RDMA over Converged Ethernet - netdev is below RDMA
2. IPoIB - IP over Infiniband - netdev is above RDMA
3. HFI-VNIC - Ethernet over OmniPath - netdev is above RDMA
4. iWARP - RDMA over IP networks
e.t.c.

>
>     Andrew

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