On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 07:49:59PM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: > > > On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Christoph Hellwig <h...@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:07:03AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > >> The ARM folks do this sort of stuff on a regular basis.. Very early on > >> Doug prepares a topic branch with only the big change, NFS folks pull > >> it and then pull your work. Then Doug would send the topic branch to > >> Linus as soon as the merge window opens, then NFS would send theirs. > >> > >> This is alot less work overall than trying to sequence multiple > >> patches over multiple releases.. > > > > Agreed. Staging has alaways been a giant pain and things tend to never > > finish moving over that way if they are non-trivial enough. > > In that case: > > You need to make sure you have all the right Acks. I've added > Anna and Bruce to Ack the NFS-related portions. Santosh should > Ack the RDS part. > > http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/rdma.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ib_device_attr
Fine by me. > Given the proximity to the holidays and the next merge window, > Doug will need to get a properly-acked topic branch published > in the next day or two so the rest of us can rebase and start > testing before the relevant parties disappear for the holiday. What branch should I be working from? --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
