Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: add temporary PCI dependency

From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Marciniszyn, Mike" <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: add temporary PCI dependency
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:10:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150819041006.GA9794@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2EAAE0A5-3B1C-4846-B5A2-50026A91011F@redhat.com>

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 08:11:26PM -0700, Doug Ledford wrote:
> 
> > On Aug 18, 2015, at 7:49 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 06:24:40PM -0700, Doug Ledford wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> Are
> >>> you going to be responsible for all of the patches sent to it and you
> >>> just want me to ignore them, or will you send patches to me for me to
> >>> apply?
> >> 
> >> I expect the patch load to be significant due to the required TODO
> >> item of making it use a transfer engine library.  I wouldn’t want to
> >> sign you up for that load.  If you are OK with me processing the
> >> patches, then I’m happy to do so.  If you would prefer the other way
> >> around, then I’ll defer to your wishes.
> > 
> > What is "significant"?  I'm kind of used to handling a lot of patches :)
> 
> I have no doubt of that.
> 
> > How are you going to handle all of the coding style fixups that will end
> > up coming in from people?  Want me to just let you handle all of them as
> > well?  If so, please remove me from the MAINTAINERS entry for this
> > subdirectory so that I, and the driverdevel mailing list do not get the
> > emails.
> > 
> > Otherwise, feel free to just send me patches, I can easily handle them.
> 
> Given the amount of stuff I have on the radar for going through the
> staging tree (two deprecated drivers to be removed entirely, plan is
> move to staging in 4.3, delete from tree in 4.6, this driver and one
> other as-of-yet-to-be-submitted driver to be added to tree, both
> drivers have the same major TODO item, which is to be converted to use
> a library for their transfer engine, which also requires writing said
> library), I’m wondering if it isn’t worthwhile to create a
> staging/infiniband directory, remove your name and driverdevel from
> the maintainer entry for the directory and redirect it to linux-rdma,
> and delete it when this work has passed.

That sounds like a good plan to me.

thanks,

greg k-h
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