From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:55686 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751022AbeCTPS0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:18:26 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:18:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20180320.111824.2214262102648467414.davem@davemloft.net> To: swise@opengridcomputing.com Cc: rajur@chelsio.com, dledford@redhat.com, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, jgg@ziepe.ca, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bharat@chelsio.com, ganeshgr@chelsio.com, rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com Subject: Re: interdependencies with cxgb4 and iw_cxgb4 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <3d6501d3c05d$571a28a0$054e79e0$@opengridcomputing.com> References: <01a201d3c051$eebbded0$cc339c70$@opengridcomputing.com> <20180320.104046.957152577341740274.davem@davemloft.net> <3d6501d3c05d$571a28a0$054e79e0$@opengridcomputing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "Steve Wise" Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:08:44 -0500 > For the maintainers, yes. But it avoids setting up k.o accounts and > git repos for each device driver maintainer that has this issue. I think this is quite a reasonable requirement for submitters wishing to make significant changes across two subsystems with complex interdependencies. It is critical to get the changes tested in both the RDMA and net-next tree contexts as early as possible, and to shake out any intergration issues (which happens transparently via linux-next). I know it's easy to see the personal "burdon" it causes you as an individual developer, but you really have to consider how much is in-flight and being dealt with by maintainers of very active subsystems like the networking. Thank you.