Re: device attr cleanup (was: Handle mlx4 max_sge_rd correctly)

["santosh.shilimkar-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org" <santosh.shilimkar-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

+Dave,

On 12/10/15 4:49 PM, 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.
>
To make this flow work for RDS, Doug's topic branch needs to
pulled into Dave's net-next as well.

> http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/rdma.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ib_device_attr
>
> 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.
>

Regards,
Santosh
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