[ewg] OFA bugzilla - OFED 1.2 wrapup

2007-07-24 Thread Or Gerlitz
All, The OFA bugzilla has --254-- bugs whose status is resolved where for most of them the resolution is fixed. The current time frame, just before the work on OFED 1.3 starts, is a good period to have some house cleanup. Basically, I think the way to go is that people would do a search on the

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits

2007-07-24 Thread Arthur Jones
hi michael, ... On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:03:41AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: [...] But I also see a serious problem with addressing: basically git tracks content. It's not designed to track a bush of branches taken together. For example, take tagging: tag namespace is global, so you

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits

2007-07-24 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting Arthur Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits hi michael, ... On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:03:41AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: [...] But I also see a serious problem with addressing: basically git tracks content.

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits

2007-07-24 Thread Arthur Jones
hi michael, ... On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:09:09PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Quoting Arthur Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits hi michael, ... On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:03:41AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits

2007-07-24 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting Arthur Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits hi michael, ... On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:32:28PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: [...] For example, git pull can only merge one branch at a time. how is this a

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits

2007-07-24 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting Arthur Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits hi michael, ... On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:09:09PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Quoting Arthur Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits

2007-07-24 Thread Arthur Jones
hi michael, ... On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:53:48PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: [...] well, no, i _have_ been doing development on the local branches in our internal repo. i also merge in changes that you make to the ofed repo to our internal backport branches. the script i

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits

2007-07-24 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Because you only have your driver to maintain. no, i have to maintain quite a few of the ofed backport branches as well for our release. if i started getting pull requests from people with changes to 15 backport branches in one go, i'd probably want to script it... Yea. Happens all the

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits

2007-07-24 Thread Arthur Jones
hi michael, ... On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 08:19:24PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: i realize that you're attached to your current method, but i've _used_ a different method, and i can say from experience that it works _much_ better... I'd like to see a clean method, that doesn't replace

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits

2007-07-24 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
i'd _really_ like to see a list of the advantages of patches over branches. it's hard for me to know if i'm just missing something if the case is not laid out... Here's a short list off the top of my head - A single git pull merges any number of backport changes - A single git reset

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits

2007-07-24 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting Sean Hefty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits Here's a short list off the top of my head - A single git pull merges any number of backport changes - A single git reset ORIG_HEAD recovers from a conflicting merge - A single

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits

2007-07-24 Thread Arthur Jones
hi michael, ... On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 08:52:20PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: i'd _really_ like to see a list of the advantages of patches over branches. it's hard for me to know if i'm just missing something if the case is not laid out... thanks for the list... Here's a short