From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: device attr cleanup (was: Handle mlx4 max_sge_rd correctly) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:30:47 -0800 Message-ID: <20151210233047.GB26009@infradead.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151210180703.GC21482-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Chuck Lever , "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 11:07:03AM -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. -- 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