From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Google-Smtp-Source: AIpwx4+DJPKZDL+Bu7pLE2ud3wmWV2HgegavGRaGtHq7kRyW0lv3wCQv2yQxfubs03YLFnUXVD4k ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1523303193; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=mFphXWX+twowUZfghZUvUfIkaozeVP+DhMxC/4FGEwX//Av2Hgix7qWb1u+NvXE1Aj mwKAsqGv3td6wjfTb0Btv+0E6Yj7W2KvZutzsFy6BmZ2/68LVCVaIHl0O7bgbACHpgy+ JThBX7GHn93kDB1ARMTHaxGjm0jZTcpOLfoTlkG+dpiNI/uaYRQoFueA9iS2wHFsSmA0 WiGuABZttgXNrdJRFAGfqChP+HE198rLMMgfaHiQMadghUa4lXA0B6+N2+EFuHqCQwW8 wo5cHGHimbVV1aTHenWqv0+uCng/6PGt4Pf4ROJup6bzBEkul+vsc/C7L9EsfNrmd9hY b6ng== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=user-agent:in-reply-to:content-disposition:mime-version:references :message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:dkim-signature :arc-authentication-results; bh=mRYCjdIaK4d+CXIu7a36sEFdIIWyDyOeM8LEl9BiCxc=; b=LrBgiLNtUAkijgBrhV4kU2jO/d/YYUzdcZh5TCVHgrA0j6DkVHw0NE90I6RVBJNor/ /fEWmeIJ9bk0th/nG8U1TBDCVHOcNWXEfOkrfI4wQg7EDj48v/Von/i775FS46zzLLTz lYXjbjdF3ikdRtFaQfWUCDFAniutgTuHE9ouRm1Agle/qR392rhuUgp+g93jkE4A+Gze fRlQ+5+KpO7U/TbZv9WUfNFoQJYtt3piZ0Y2sXZsnho3qQpCq8Y1C1FoYZ94u1L9zY/P T94PWiHL/FPlALqfpXLszfDB8olLnD9ug+xR9/gyumIeuaeo8Y/aT2BTbdnk0yhVMnlc 4EJQ== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@cisco.com header.s=iport header.b=aThWTpIN; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of osmithde@osmithde-lnx.cisco.com designates 173.37.86.77 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=osmithde@osmithde-lnx.cisco.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=cisco.com Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@cisco.com header.s=iport header.b=aThWTpIN; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of osmithde@osmithde-lnx.cisco.com designates 173.37.86.77 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=osmithde@osmithde-lnx.cisco.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=cisco.com X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.48,427,1517875200"; d="scan'208";a="378983786" Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 12:49:23 -0700 From: Oliver Smith-Denny To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Sesidhar Baddela , Gian Carlo Boffa , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] staging: fnic2 add initialization Message-ID: <20180409194922.GA24842@osmithde-lnx.cisco.com> References: <20180405211519.GA12584@osmithde-lnx.cisco.com> <20180405211644.GB12584@osmithde-lnx.cisco.com> <20180406050752.GC27591@kroah.com> <20180406220010.GA23478@osmithde-lnx.cisco.com> <20180407060901.GA18744@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180407060901.GA18744@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox: INBOX X-GMAIL-THRID: =?utf-8?q?1596942284542554315?= X-GMAIL-MSGID: =?utf-8?q?1597299169349489462?= X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 08:09:01AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Why not just take a week and do that? I can't take any new patches > until 4.17-rc1 is out anyway. Thanks for your help in figuring out the best way forward for this driver. We will work to finish the TODOs on our end before 4.17-rc1 is out to see if we can have the driver in a finished state to submit directly to the SCSI maintainers. If staging still seems a viable option after 4.17-rc1 comes out, then I will resubmit the patch after talking with the SCSI developers. > And why not copy the staging developer mailing list on this patch > series? My bad, I missed that there was a staging developer mailing list. If we continue down the staging route, I will CC them. > I'll take anything in staging as long as it has the correct license and > builds, that's not an issue :) But I do want to get agreement from the > SCSI maintainers that this is ok to have in this part of the kernel as > sometimes it can cause merge issues if there are core api changes. Sounds good. Thanks again for all your help. Oliver Smith-Denny