From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] cxgb3/cxgb3i: added support of private MAC address and provisioning packet handler for iSCSI Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090926.001646.06991481.davem@davemloft.net> References: <200909252225.n8PMPaqI031748@localhost.localdomain> <20090925.152430.119503066.davem@davemloft.net> <8A71B368A89016469F72CD08050AD334066E7019@maui.asicdesigners.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, swise@opengridcomputing.com, divy@chelsio.com, rakesh@chelsio.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: kxie@chelsio.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <8A71B368A89016469F72CD08050AD334066E7019@maui.asicdesigners.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: "Karen Xie" Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:34:22 -0700 > Hmm, I am wondering how could this merge activity to be coordinated? If > only the driver/scsi change is merged, then it won't compile either, > since it requires the driver/net change. That's rediculious, frankly. Since they are two seperate changes you are knowingly creating a bisection point that will not work. That's wrong. You need to split up the changes so that each and every one of them are independant and the tree can be checked out at either of them and everything can be expected to work.