From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from linode.aoot.com ([69.164.194.13]:56836 "EHLO linode.aoot.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751186AbeCTPUW (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:20:22 -0400 From: "Steve Wise" To: "'David Miller'" Cc: , , , , , , , References: <01a201d3c051$eebbded0$cc339c70$@opengridcomputing.com> <20180320.104046.957152577341740274.davem@davemloft.net> <3d6501d3c05d$571a28a0$054e79e0$@opengridcomputing.com> <20180320.111824.2214262102648467414.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20180320.111824.2214262102648467414.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: RE: interdependencies with cxgb4 and iw_cxgb4 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:20:21 -0500 Message-ID: <3d8001d3c05e$f63bf660$e2b3e320$@opengridcomputing.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-us 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. Fair enough. Thanks Dave.