Comment 5 for bug 1650058

Joshua - I looked at mlnx-ofed-kernel-dkms_3.4-OFED.3.4.2.0.0.1.g30039f7_all.deb in some detail. It appears that nearly all of the drivers contained therein are replacements for existing drivers in the linux v4.4 kernel. Even without looking at the code for these replacement drivers, I can say that a patch series integrating these changes will certainly _not_ qualify under the Ubuntu SRU policy. There are a number of consumers of the Mellanox Infiniband stack for which these changes might cause regression.

We could certainly merge these changes in an Azure specific kernel or flavor, but not as part of the generic distribution kernel binary.

rtg