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 10:52:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adavevca48l.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060218181509.GA892@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:15:09 -0800")
Greg> Checking stuff into a private svn tree is vastly different
Greg> from posting to lkml in public. In fact, it looks like the
Greg> svn tree is so far ahead of the in-kernel stuff, that most
Greg> people are just using it instead of the in-kernel code.
It's not a private svn tree -- the IBM ehca development is available
to anyone via svn at https://openib.org/svn/gen2/trunk/src/linux-kernel/infiniband/hw/ehca
Greg> I know at least one company has asked a distro to just
Greg> accept the svn snapshot over the in-kernel IB code, which
Greg> makes me wonder if the in-kernel stuff is even useful to
Greg> people? Why have it, if companies insist on using the
Greg> out-of-tree stuff instead?
The IB driver stack is still in its early stages, so although I'm
pushing for things to be merged as fast as possible, the unfortunate
fact is that lots of things that people want to use (including the IBM
ehca driver) are not upstream and are not ready to go upstream yet.
But that doesn't mean we should give up on merging them.
Distro politics are just distro politics -- and there will always be
pressure on distros to ship stuff that's not upstream yet.
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-18 18:53 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 [this message]
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
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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