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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Subject: [ofa-general] Re: Merge process for OFED patches
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:21:43 -0700
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 > I noticed that there are seven SRP patches (bug fixes) present in OFED
 > 1.4.1 that are not present in mainstream Linux kernels up to and
 > including version 2.6.30. Do you know whether it is documented
 > anywhere which process is followed for merging such patches in the
 > mainstream Linux kernel ?

Documentation/SubmittingPatches?

Seriously, someone has to send the patches for them to get applied.