RE: device attr cleanup

["Steve Wise" <swise-7bPotxP6k4+P2YhJcF5u+vpXobYPEAuW@public.gmane.org>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org [mailto:linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Doug Ledford
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 9:19 PM
> To: J. Bruce Fields; Chuck Lever
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig; Anna Schumaker; Jason Gunthorpe; linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org; ira.weiny; Or Gerlitz; Steve Wise; Or Gerlitz;
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> Grimberg
> Subject: Re: device attr cleanup
> 
> On 12/23/2015 04:31 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 07:49:59PM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:07:03AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >>>> The ARM folks do this sort of stuff on a regular basis.. Very early on
> >>>> Doug prepares a topic branch with only the big change, NFS folks pull
> >>>> it and then pull your work. Then Doug would send the topic branch to
> >>>> Linus as soon as the merge window opens, then NFS would send theirs.
> >>>>
> >>>> This is alot less work overall than trying to sequence multiple
> >>>> patches over multiple releases..
> >>>
> >>> Agreed.  Staging has alaways been a giant pain and things tend to never
> >>> finish moving over that way if they are non-trivial enough.
> >>
> >> In that case:
> >>
> >> You need to make sure you have all the right Acks. I've added
> >> Anna and Bruce to Ack the NFS-related portions. Santosh should
> >> Ack the RDS part.
> >>
> >> http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/rdma.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ib_device_attr
> >
> > Fine by me.
> >
> >> Given the proximity to the holidays and the next merge window,
> >> Doug will need to get a properly-acked topic branch published
> >> in the next day or two so the rest of us can rebase and start
> >> testing before the relevant parties disappear for the holiday.
> >
> > What branch should I be working from?
> 
> That patch was very intrusive (and I didn't like the change to the
> structure organization).  An alternative patch was proposed and I took
> it instead.  The patch I took is much less intrusive, but you might
> still need to adjust things slightly.  I've pushed my current WIP
> for-next branch to my github repo:
> 
> git://github.com/dledford/linux.git for-next
> 
> This branch might get rebased still yet before it gets pushed to my
> official repo at k.o, but it is perfectly fine to check that your
> patches will merge with my for-next branch without conflicts.
>

Hey Doug, I don't see this branch.  Which branch has the accepted device attr change?

Steve.

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