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From: "hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>
To: Anish Bhatt <anish@chelsio.com>
Cc: "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>,
	"jbottomley@parallels.com" <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
	"michaelc@cs.wisc.edu" <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
	Karen Xie <kxie@chelsio.com>,
	Manoj Malviya <manojmalviya@chelsio.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH scsi] libcxgbi : support ipv6 address host_param
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 08:12:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141018151203.GA30355@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <525DB349B3FB5444AE057A887CB2A8D8920F15@nice.asicdesigners.com>

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 07:43:34PM +0000, Anish Bhatt wrote:
> I actually wanted to get some clarification on how the branches on scsi-queue
>  work. The core/drivers separation is easy enough, but the current branches 
> are confusing. If say I am submitting a bug fix for the next 3.17 release, what
>  branch should I be basing my changes on ? Is there a preferred procedure for
>  submitting bug fixes vs new features ?


Anything that is an urgent and/or very small fix should just be against
Linus' current tree and will go into the drivers branch for that tree.

Anything bigger and/or less urgent should be sent against the drivers
branch for the next release.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-18 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-16 22:59 [PATCH scsi] libcxgbi : support ipv6 address host_param Anish Bhatt
2014-10-17 19:43 ` Anish Bhatt
2014-10-18 15:12   ` hch [this message]
2014-10-18 15:18     ` hch
2014-10-19  4:07       ` Anish Bhatt
2014-10-19 14:17         ` hch
2014-10-19 17:51           ` Anish Bhatt
2014-10-21 19:09 ` Mike Christie
2014-10-25  0:06   ` Anish Bhatt
2014-10-27  9:56     ` hch

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