Re: Merge process for OFED patches

Bart Van Assche
2009-09-16T14:39:54Z

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Roland Dreier <rdreier-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  > 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.

This should be done by the original patch author.

I would like to contact the author of the fourth patch. But
unfortunately I could not find any author information in that patch.