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Subject: Re: interdependencies with cxgb4 and iw_cxgb4
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From: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:50:57 -0500

> Let me ask a dumb question:� Why cannot one of the maintaners pull the
> commit from the other mainainer's git repo directly?� IE why have this
> third trusted/signed git repo that has to be on k.o, from which both
> maintainers pull?� If one of you can pull it in via a patch series,
> like you do for all other patches, and then notify the other
> maintainer to pull it from the first maintainers' repo if the series
> meets the requirements that it needs to be in both maintainers'
> repositories?� This avoids adding more staging git repos on k.o.� But
> probably I'm missing something...

Tree A may not want all of tree B's changes, and vice versa.