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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>,
	Bryant G Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	martin.petersen@oracle.com, tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, kvalo@codeaurora.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	mchehab@osg.samsung.com, jslaby@suse.com, joe@perches.com,
	bp@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	bgly <bgly@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmvscsis: Initial commit of IBM VSCSI Tgt Driver
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 07:55:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160614145552.GA18075@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465885432.5365.214.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com>

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:23:52PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> AFAICT, the problem with this improvement is that it's not stable
> material, which means that Canonical would have to carry this separately
> beyond linux-4.4.y, in order to support ibmvscsi-tgt.

So who cares?  If they have a business interest in backporting the
driver they'll need to figure out a way.  None of that should matter in
any way whatsover for mainline.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-14 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-24 13:52 [PATCH] ibmvscsis: Initial commit of IBM VSCSI Tgt Driver Bryant G. Ly
2016-05-24 14:14 ` Joe Perches
2016-05-24 14:30 ` Greg KH
2016-05-24 16:25 ` Bart Van Assche
2016-05-24 16:34   ` Greg KH
2016-05-24 16:44     ` Bart Van Assche
2016-05-24 16:50       ` Greg KH
2016-05-24 20:00   ` Bryant G Ly
2016-06-10 19:03     ` Bart Van Assche
2016-06-14  6:23       ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2016-06-14 14:55         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-05-25 14:17 ` IBM VSCSI Target Driver Initial Patch Sets Bryant G. Ly
2016-05-25 14:17   ` [PATCH 2/3] ibmvscsis: Addressing Bart's comments Bryant G. Ly
2016-05-25 14:17   ` [PATCH 3/3] ibmvscsis: clean up functions Bryant G. Ly
2016-05-25 14:44     ` Joe Perches

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