From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/18] bnx2fc version 1.0.5 Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:29:41 -0700 Message-ID: <4E554315.5020609@broadcom.com> References: <1312504732-4572-1-git-send-email-bprakash@broadcom.com> <1314156445.4813.7.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mms3.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.19]:4064 "EHLO MMS3.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753607Ab1HXS3w (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:29:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1314156445.4813.7.camel@mulgrave> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "michaelc@cs.wisc.edu" , Michael Chan , "robert.w.love@intel.com" , "devel@open-fcoe.org" On 8/23/2011 10:48 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 17:38 -0700, Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi wrote: >> v2 submittal: >> Minor changes to patch 5, 8 and patch 13. >> Patch 5 - Removed unnecessary printk >> Patch 8 - Added code to ignore netdev events other than UNREGISTER for vlan interface >> patch 13 - Error handling fixed for tgt_init_err. >> -------- >> >> This patchset contains bnx2fc bug fixes. Please note that patch 15 is >> 'fcoe/libfcoe' patch, which moves LLD common code from fcoe driver to >> fcoe_transport, to enable patch 16 and 17. > > So this is a nice mix of features and bug fixes ... what do I have to do > exactly to persuade you to submit the two things separately ... so they > can go through separate trees and be tagged for backport to stable if > necessary? > > However, it's late and I'm tired, so I just put them in SCSI misc. This > means that if you can separate out the bug fixes, you can submit them to > stable manually. > > James James, in future, I'll make sure to submit enhancements and bug fixes in separate patchsets. For not, it is okay if they are merged to 3.2. Thanks, Bhanu >