From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752628AbZIZStu (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:49:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752371AbZIZStt (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:49:49 -0400 Received: from stargate.chelsio.com ([67.207.112.58]:29487 "EHLO stargate.chelsio.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752345AbZIZSts convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:49:48 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 0/2] cxgb3/cxgb3i: added support of private MAC address and provisioning packet handler for iSCSI Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:55:36 -0700 Message-ID: <8A71B368A89016469F72CD08050AD334066E713E@maui.asicdesigners.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [PATCH v2 0/2] cxgb3/cxgb3i: added support of private MAC address and provisioning packet handler for iSCSI Thread-Index: Aco+eZO3CUWSeZP8TmiavQXL/eW0NQAYRI4A References: <200909252225.n8PMPaqI031748@localhost.localdomain><20090925.152430.119503066.davem@davemloft.net><8A71B368A89016469F72CD08050AD334066E7019@maui.asicdesigners.com> <20090926.001646.06991481.davem@davemloft.net> From: "Karen Xie" To: "David Miller" Cc: , , "Steve Wise" , "Divy Le Ray" , "Rakesh Ranjan" , , , , Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thanks, understood. We are submitting a new version that would be isolated to changes to the net driver only and would not affect scsi driver. Thanks a lot. Karen -----Original Message----- From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net] Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 12:17 AM To: Karen Xie Cc: michaelc@cs.wisc.edu; James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com; Steve Wise; Divy Le Ray; Rakesh Ranjan; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; open-iscsi@googlegroups.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] cxgb3/cxgb3i: added support of private MAC address and provisioning packet handler for iSCSI From: "Karen Xie" Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:34:22 -0700 > Hmm, I am wondering how could this merge activity to be coordinated? If > only the driver/scsi change is merged, then it won't compile either, > since it requires the driver/net change. That's rediculious, frankly. Since they are two seperate changes you are knowingly creating a bisection point that will not work. That's wrong. You need to split up the changes so that each and every one of them are independant and the tree can be checked out at either of them and everything can be expected to work. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Karen Xie" Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 0/2] cxgb3/cxgb3i: added support of private MAC address and provisioning packet handler for iSCSI Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:55:36 -0700 Message-ID: <8A71B368A89016469F72CD08050AD334066E713E@maui.asicdesigners.com> References: <200909252225.n8PMPaqI031748@localhost.localdomain><20090925.152430.119503066.davem@davemloft.net><8A71B368A89016469F72CD08050AD334066E7019@maui.asicdesigners.com> <20090926.001646.06991481.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Cc: michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, Steve Wise , Divy Le Ray , Rakesh Ranjan , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Thanks, understood. We are submitting a new version that would be isolated to changes to the net driver only and would not affect scsi driver. Thanks a lot. Karen -----Original Message----- From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net] Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 12:17 AM To: Karen Xie Cc: michaelc@cs.wisc.edu; James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com; Steve Wise; Divy Le Ray; Rakesh Ranjan; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; open-iscsi@googlegroups.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] cxgb3/cxgb3i: added support of private MAC address and provisioning packet handler for iSCSI From: "Karen Xie" Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:34:22 -0700 > Hmm, I am wondering how could this merge activity to be coordinated? If > only the driver/scsi change is merged, then it won't compile either, > since it requires the driver/net change. That's rediculious, frankly. Since they are two seperate changes you are knowingly creating a bisection point that will not work. That's wrong. You need to split up the changes so that each and every one of them are independant and the tree can be checked out at either of them and everything can be expected to work.