Re: Why nothing since 1.8.0?

[Marc Sune <marc.sune-kpkqNMk1I7M@public.gmane.org>]

On 15/01/15 19:51, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 06:25:33PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>> 2015-01-15 08:06, Neil Horman:
>>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:51:38AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>>> 2015-01-15 04:27, Ouyang, Changchun:
>>>>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Zhang, Helin
>>>>>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Neil Horman
>>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:23:52PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>>>>>>> Ok, so 1.8.0 came out almost a month ago and none of the patches
>>>>>>>> that were deferred waiting for the release got merged since then.
>>>>>>>> Last commit in git is the 1.8.0 release.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Where is the post-merge window bundle, where are the later commits?
>>>>>>>> Lots of patches are sitting rotting in patchwork...
>>>>>>> +1, I've had the same questions.
>>>>>>> Neil
>>>>>> +1, Some patch set might be ready for being merged.
>>>>> +1,  the earlier some patches are merged into mainline, and the easier those
>>>>> sequent patch sets can resolve their conflicts.
>>>> +1, there are some patches which are properly reviewed
>>>>
>>>> Reminder: sub-tree to manage specific part of DPDK can be open on request
>>> Ok, I think what you're saying here is you're too busy to handle all the patches
>>> comming in at the moment.  As such I'd like to propose a sub-tree encompassing
>>> all the pmds in DPDK.  I would envision that including all the acutal pmd's in
>>> the tree, as well as the infrastructure that is used to interface them to the
>>> core (i.e. the ethdev/rte_ether library).  I'll gladly maintain the patch pool
>>> and send you pull requests.
>> [snip]
>> And that doesn't account for the ~500 patches that come in via pull 
>> request from the wireless subtree. Nor does it account for the merge 
>> window for net-next being 2 months instead of dpdk's 6 months.

Neil,

I don't want to hinder the discussion but: could you please point me out 
where this wireless subtree is?

Maybe I am too blind, but I cannot see it here:

http://dpdk.org/browse/

We are interested in acceleration for wireless NICs.

Marc

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