From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org,
openib-general@openib.org, SCHICKHJ@de.ibm.com,
RAISCH@de.ibm.com, HNGUYEN@de.ibm.com, MEDER@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/22] Firmware interface code for IB device.
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:04:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aday809bewn.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060218015808.GB17653@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:58:08 -0800")
Greg> Roland, your comments are fine, but what about the original
Greg> author's descriptions of what each patch are?
This is actually me breaking up a giant driver into pieces small
enough to post to lkml without hitting the 100 KB limit.
This is just an RFC -- I assume the driver is going to get merged in
the end as one big git changeset with a changelog like "add driver for
IBM eHCA InfiniBand adapters".
Greg> Come on, IBM allows developers to post code to lkml, just
Greg> look at the archives for proof. For them to use a proxy
Greg> like this is very strange, and also, there is no
Greg> Signed-off-by: record from the original authors, which is
Greg> not ok.
Well, the eHCA guys tell me that they can't post patches to lkml.
You're right that the final merge will have to have an IBM
Signed-off-by: line but as I said this is just an RFC. There are many
reasons beyond patch format issues that make this stuff unmergeable as-is.
Greg> And why aren't you using the standard firmware interface in
Greg> the kernel?
This is actually stuff to talk to the firmware that sits below the
kernel on IBM ppc64 machines, not an interface to load device firmware
from userspace.
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-18 2:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-18 0:55 [PATCH 00/22] [RFC] IBM eHCA InfiniBand adapter driver Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 01/22] Add powerpc-specific clear_cacheline(), which just compiles to "dcbz" Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 12:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-20 14:59 ` Anton Blanchard
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 02/22] Firmware interface code for IB device Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 1:58 ` Greg KH
2006-02-18 2:04 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-02-18 12:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-18 12:26 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-02-18 12:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-18 12:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-18 16:32 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 17:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-18 18:15 ` Greg KH
2006-02-18 18:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-18 18:52 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 19:53 ` Greg KH
2006-02-18 21:31 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 23:29 ` Greg KH
2006-02-19 0:09 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 10:59 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-18 12:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 03/22] pHype specific stuff Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 12:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-20 15:09 ` Anton Blanchard
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 04/22] OF adapter probing Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 1:54 ` Greg KH
2006-02-18 12:46 ` [openib-general] " Heiko J Schick
2006-02-18 16:02 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 05/22] HW register abstractions Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 06/22] Queue handling Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 07/22] Hypercall definitions Roland Dreier
2006-02-20 15:12 ` Anton Blanchard
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 08/22] Generic ehca headers Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 15:09 ` [openib-general] " Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 09/22] ehca classes Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 11/22] ehca event queues Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 12/22] ehca low-level verbs Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 13/22] HCA query functions Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 14/22] ehca completion queue handling Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 15/22] ehca queue pair handling Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 16/22] ehca post send/receive and poll CQ Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 17/22] Special QP functions Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 18/22] ehca address vectors, multicast groups, protection domains Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 19/22] ehca memory regions Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 20/22] ehca userspace verbs Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 21/22] ehca main file Roland Dreier
2006-02-20 15:22 ` Anton Blanchard
2006-02-20 16:52 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-21 2:09 ` [openib-general] " Heiko J Schick
2006-02-20 18:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-02-18 0:58 ` [PATCH 22/22] ehca Makefile/Kconfig changes Roland Dreier
2006-02-20 15:06 ` [PATCH 00/22] [RFC] IBM eHCA InfiniBand adapter driver Christoph Raisch
2006-02-20 16:55 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-20 17:43 ` [openib-general] " Stephen Poole
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