Re: linux-next: manual merge of the block tree with the drbd tree

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 3/25/26 10:47 AM, Christoph B?hmwalder wrote:
> Am 25.03.26 um 17:30 schrieb Jens Axboe:
>> On 3/25/26 10:07 AM, Christoph B?hmwalder wrote:
>>> Jens, how do you want to handle this?
>>> Should I send the (technically working, but maybe
>>> old-userspace-breaking) DRBD 9 patch series to you so you can carry it
>>> in block/for-next? So far I was under the impression that these patches
>>> would be too large and unfinished for the block/for-next branch.
>>
>> How about this - rebase it against for-7.1/block, and send the series.
>> I can stash it in for-7.1/drbd, which can go into for-next. Then the
>> separate tree can be dropped.
>>
>> I won't submit the changes in for-7.1/drbd, but just expect you to send
>> a new series against for-7.2/block when that is a thing. The 7.2 one
>> should be closer to going upstream, and so forth. Within a few revisions
>> of the mainline kernel, we'll get to the point where for-7.x/drbd can be
>> included in the merge window pull request as well, and we're done at
>> that point and future drbd changes will just get submitted against
>> for-7.x/block like any other block driver.
>>
>> ?
>>
> 
> Sounds like a plan. I'll send the rebased series this week.
> We already have a few "get it closer to going upstream" patches in the
> pipeline targeted for the 7.1 and 7.2 merge windows, but none of them
> are truly ready yet. So this approach would fit very well.
> 
> Exactly, once we are done with all this we will adopt a "normal"
> upstream-first dev approach again. We've already discussed changes to
> our internal workflow to make sure we never digress this far from
> upstream again -- I think that's in all our interests :)

OK, all on the same page then! Thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe