From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Collins Subject: Re: changes to ieee1394/sbp2 outside of linux1394.org Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 13:53:03 -0400 Message-ID: <20050709175303.GC29099@phunnypharm.org> References: <200507091237.j69Cbtrv003425@einhorn.in-berlin.de> <1120922306.5008.5.camel@mulgrave> <20050709162712.GB27347@phunnypharm.org> <1120927030.3176.39.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [206.246.247.150] ([206.246.247.150]:40416 "EHLO bristol.phunnypharm.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261647AbVGIRxF (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jul 2005 13:53:05 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1120927030.3176.39.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, SCSI Mailing List , Stefan Richter , James Bottomley On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 06:37:10PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 12:27 -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > If it was orphaned it was done so mistakenly. I maintain that code, and > > linux1394. > > > > Aside from that, the the change was pushed into the mainstream kernel > > without going through our repository, which means it would have been > > caught before going to all of our users (most of users of ieee1394 on > > linux use it for sbp2). > > > > THese changes break sbp2, and we'll need to revert them in the main stream > > kernel until the patch is tested and fixed in our tree. > > > > you can't revert the changes done to the locking really.... the API > changed. Also I can't imagine these breaking at all. > > Does ieee1394 tree have a git tree that james could pull? (like akpm > pulls many trees I guess at least sbp2 should be pulled into the scsi > tree) No git tree, we've been strictly subversion lately. I may end up creating a script to sync a git tree soon. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ SwissDisk - http://www.swissdisk.com/