Hey Michael, The way IB patches are pushed upstream along the last (first to IB...) kernel cycles is that patches are gathered in a branch at Roland's GIT tree @kernel.org and then once or twice along the lifetime of feature or bug fixes merge window, Roland sends an email to Linus with CC to lkml and openib asking him to pull a patch set.
I strongly prefer this work mode among other things as of the following reasons: - it allows developers to easily keep track on what's went upstream and when by just saving this 1 or 2 emails per window - Roland tree under kernel.org is accessed via http and supports fancy and very helpful browsing - it creates much less traffic which is practically noise at lkml (why are you sending each patch to netdev as well??? other than making these patches confuse my mailer rules i don't see any reason for that) - it confines to the linux hierarchic maintaining model, Roland is the IB maintainer and he sends Linus ***bunch*** of patches, ***once in a while*** Also if not urgent (eg the bug is killer and the kernel is about to be out in few hours) i think its wrong to send fixes directly from the oven to Linus; patches should reside in the IB git tree for a while, were they can be pulled/compiled and tested by IB developers. To summarize, i suggest to revert to the work mode that has been set by Roland so far, and have it done by Roland. I did not see any note from him that he will not keep on doing the excellent job he did so far, only mentioned that he would be somehow slow for some time as of good and happy reasons. Also, and sorry to do that in public, please slow down. Or. Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:19:02 +0300 > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Quoting r. Michael S. Tsirkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Yes, -mm seems like a good way to get more review. >> Andrew, am I using the right format to send things upstream to you? >> There's really a set of independent patches, so it didn't make sense >> to me to batch them up in a series. OK? > > Sure. Although I am a little surprised to be be receiving them while > Roland is in taking-time-off-but-not-really-doing-so mode. > > But whatever - I'll put them in the for-2.6.18 queue, thanks. _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
