Re: [PATCH for-next 0/8] IB/hfi1, core, rdmavt: Driver fixes for 10/2/2017

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

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On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 09:22:06PM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> On 10/4/2017 3:44 PM, Doug Ledford wrote:
> > On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 11:03 -0700, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> > > Hi Doug,
> > > There are a couple fixes in here that would have been nice to get
> > > into the RC
> > > cycle, including one marked stable. However I think you will find
> > > them to be
> > > too many LOC for an rc-4 submission so I have sent them in one series
> > > for-next.
> > > Patches 2,3,4 and 5 are the fixes. Patch 2 is small but it's not
> > > really that
> > > important to the end user.
> > >
> > > There are some clean ups in here from Don from the 16B changes. One
> > > takes care
> > > of some sparse warnings and the other two are from a WARN_ON_ONCE
> > > that needed
> > > special cased for OPA.
> > >
> > > Patches can can also be found in my GitHub repo at:
> > > https://github.com/ddalessa/kernel/tree/for-4.15
> >
> > Hi Denny,
> >
> > I didn't process that you mixed for-rc and for-next stuff in a single
> > thread before I had gone through and looked at the patches and
> > processed them.  So, this time they all went to for-next.  In the
> > future, you really need patches you want in for-rc separate from the
> > patches intended for for-next.
>
> Maybe I wasn't too clear, I didn't intend any of those to go for-rc. So yep
> for-next was the right target.
>
> I would have liked to get the fixes into -rc but they were just too complex
> for this late in the game is all I meant.

IMHO, the number of LOCs shouldn't be the gating factor for -rc, but the
severity of fixes yes.

Thanks

>
> -Denny
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