From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "gregkh-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/15] staging/rdma/hfi1: Initial patches to add rdmavt support in HFI1 Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 17:01:48 -0800 Message-ID: <20151222010148.GB2145@kroah.com> References: <20151214172509.11576.19722.stgit@phlsvslse11.ph.intel.com> <20151221061214.GD3860@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com> <20151221220235.GA14142@kroah.com> <20151222001943.GM3860@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151222001943.GM3860-W4f6Xiosr+yv7QzWx2u06xL4W9x8LtSr@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "ira.weiny" Cc: Doug Ledford , devel-gWbeCf7V1WCQmaza687I9mD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 07:19:43PM -0500, ira.weiny wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 02:02:35PM -0800, gregkh-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 01:12:14AM -0500, ira.weiny wrote: > > > Greg, Doug, > > > > > > As mentioned below, these patches depend on the new rdmavt library submitted to > > > Doug on linux-rdma. > > > > > > We continue to identify (and rework) patches by our other developers which can > > > be submitted without conflicts with this series. Furthermore, We have, as much > > > as possible, placed fixes directly into rdmavt such that those changes can be > > > dropped from hfi1. But at this point, we need to know if and where these are > > > going to land so that we can start reworking as appropriate. > > > > > > Therefore, I would like to discuss plans to get hfi1 under the same maintainer > > > to work through this transitional period. > > > > > > Basically, At what point should we stop submitting patches to Greg and start > > > submitting to Doug? > > > > > > Should we consider the merge window itself as the swap over point and submit > > > changes to Doug at that point? If so, should we continue to submit what we can > > > to Greg until then (and continue rebase'ing the series below on that work)? Or > > > given Gregs backlog, should we stop submitting to Greg sometime prior to the > > > merge window? > > > > > > That brings up my final question, at the point of swap over I assume anything > > > not accepted by Greg should be considered rejected and we need to resubmit to > > > Doug? > > > > If Doug accepts the library changes, let me know that public git commit > > and I can pull it into the staging-next branch and you can continue to > > send me staging patches that way. > > Won't this cause a conflict during the merge window? No, git is good :) > How do we handle changes which affect both qib and hfi1? I don't know, now this gets messy... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html