From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Lever Subject: Re: device attr cleanup (was: Handle mlx4 max_sge_rd correctly) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:49:59 -0500 Message-ID: <09F96E8A-5E1E-4345-9069-C07108AF0BC7@oracle.com> References: <566753E3.9060301@redhat.com> <20151208225940.GB27609@obsidianresearch.com> <20151208230244.GA10701@infradead.org> <20151209005203.GD16976@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com> <20151209184235.GB4522@infradead.org> <20151210014556.GA32059@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com> <56693758.90808@dev.mellanox.co.il> <93E3DE8A-0589-436D-A9A1-7EAC66B12739@oracle.com> <20151210180703.GC21482@obsidianresearch.com> <20151210233047.GB26009@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20151210233047.GB26009-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Christoph Hellwig , Anna Schumaker , "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: Jason Gunthorpe , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "ira.weiny" , Or Gerlitz , Steve Wise , Or Gerlitz , Sagi Grimberg , Doug Ledford List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org > On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:07:03AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: >> The ARM folks do this sort of stuff on a regular basis.. Very early on >> Doug prepares a topic branch with only the big change, NFS folks pull >> it and then pull your work. Then Doug would send the topic branch to >> Linus as soon as the merge window opens, then NFS would send theirs. >> >> This is alot less work overall than trying to sequence multiple >> patches over multiple releases.. > > Agreed. Staging has alaways been a giant pain and things tend to never > finish moving over that way if they are non-trivial enough. In that case: You need to make sure you have all the right Acks. I've added Anna and Bruce to Ack the NFS-related portions. Santosh should Ack the RDS part. http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/rdma.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ib_device_attr Given the proximity to the holidays and the next merge window, Doug will need to get a properly-acked topic branch published in the next day or two so the rest of us can rebase and start testing before the relevant parties disappear for the holiday. -- Chuck Lever -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html