Re: device attr cleanup (was: Handle mlx4 max_sge_rd correctly)

[Anna Schumaker <schumakeranna-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>> On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> In that case:
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> You need to make sure you have all the right Acks. I've added
> Anna and Bruce to Ack the NFS-related portions. Santosh should
> Ack the RDS part.

The NFS client parts look okay to me:

Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker-ZwjVKphTwtPQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

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> http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/rdma.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ib_device_attr
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> Given the proximity to the holidays and the next merge window,
> Doug will need to get a properly-acked topic branch published
> in the next day or two so the rest of us can rebase and start
> testing before the relevant parties disappear for the holiday.
>
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> --
> Chuck Lever
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