From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: device attr cleanup (was: Handle mlx4 max_sge_rd correctly) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:07:03 -0700 Message-ID: <20151210180703.GC21482@obsidianresearch.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <93E3DE8A-0589-436D-A9A1-7EAC66B12739-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Chuck Lever Cc: "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "ira.weiny" , Christoph Hellwig , Or Gerlitz , Steve Wise , Or Gerlitz , Sagi Grimberg , Doug Ledford List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:07:37AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: > Invasive IB core changes like this clean up are especially > burdensome for me because NFS/RDMA changes do not normally > go through Doug's tree, so it takes extra co-ordination. 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.. Jason -- 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