From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org,
openib-general@openib.org, SCHICKHJ@de.ibm.com,
RAISCH@de.ibm.com, HNGUYEN@de.ibm.com, MEDER@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/22] Firmware interface code for IB device.
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:09:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adamzgo9pl0.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060218232934.GA2624@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:29:34 -0800")
Greg> Yes, that doesn't matter. But it seems that the svn tree is
Greg> vastly different from the in-kernel code. So much so that
Greg> some companies feel that the in-kernel stuff just isn't
Greg> worth running at all.
I don't want to belabor this issue... but the svn tree is not vastly
different than what's in the kernel. It has some things that aren't
upstream yet, and which are important to some people. For example,
the IBM ehca driver we're talking about, as well as the PathScale
driver, SDP (sockets direct protocol), etc. It just takes time for
this new code to get to the point where both the developers of the new
stuff feel it's ready to be merged, and the kernel community agrees
that it should be merged.
Greg> Yes, that does make me happy. But it doesn't make me happy
Greg> to see IBM not being able to participate in kernel
Greg> development by posting and defending their own code to lkml.
Greg> I thought IBM knew better than that...
Agreed. But let's not get sidetracked on that internal IBM issue.
The ehca developers have assured me that they can and will participate
in the thread reviewing their driver. It seems like it's better for
me to help them work around their internal problems by acting as a
proxy, than for me to delay merging their driver just because someone
in IBM management is clueless.
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-19 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-18 0:55 [PATCH 00/22] [RFC] IBM eHCA InfiniBand adapter driver Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 01/22] Add powerpc-specific clear_cacheline(), which just compiles to "dcbz" Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 12:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-20 14:59 ` Anton Blanchard
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 02/22] Firmware interface code for IB device Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 1:58 ` Greg KH
2006-02-18 2:04 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 12:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-18 12:26 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-02-18 12:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-18 12:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-18 16:32 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 17:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-18 18:15 ` Greg KH
2006-02-18 18:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-18 18:52 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 19:53 ` Greg KH
2006-02-18 21:31 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 23:29 ` Greg KH
2006-02-19 0:09 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-02-18 10:59 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-18 12:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 03/22] pHype specific stuff Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 12:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-20 15:09 ` Anton Blanchard
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 04/22] OF adapter probing Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 1:54 ` Greg KH
2006-02-18 12:46 ` [openib-general] " Heiko J Schick
2006-02-18 16:02 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 05/22] HW register abstractions Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 06/22] Queue handling Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 07/22] Hypercall definitions Roland Dreier
2006-02-20 15:12 ` Anton Blanchard
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 08/22] Generic ehca headers Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 15:09 ` [openib-general] " Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 09/22] ehca classes Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 11/22] ehca event queues Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 12/22] ehca low-level verbs Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 13/22] HCA query functions Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 14/22] ehca completion queue handling Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 15/22] ehca queue pair handling Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 16/22] ehca post send/receive and poll CQ Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 17/22] Special QP functions Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 18/22] ehca address vectors, multicast groups, protection domains Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 19/22] ehca memory regions Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 20/22] ehca userspace verbs Roland Dreier
2006-02-18 0:57 ` [PATCH 21/22] ehca main file Roland Dreier
2006-02-20 15:22 ` Anton Blanchard
2006-02-20 16:52 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-21 2:09 ` [openib-general] " Heiko J Schick
2006-02-20 18:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-02-18 0:58 ` [PATCH 22/22] ehca Makefile/Kconfig changes Roland Dreier
2006-02-20 15:06 ` [PATCH 00/22] [RFC] IBM eHCA InfiniBand adapter driver Christoph Raisch
2006-02-20 16:55 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-20 17:43 ` [openib-general] " Stephen Poole
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