On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 01:25:23AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:41:16AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > > So, as to the hfi1/qib/rxe transport library. The qib driver is in the > > rdma tree, and we aren't going to move it to staging just because it > > depends on something in staging, so we need to start adding the library > > in the core tree to avoid dependency issues. As for the hfi1 driver, > > I'm of the opinion that putting it in staging because of the code > > duplication issue was probably not the right thing to do. It's > > benefited from the extra eyes on it to help make it a better driver, but > > I think I'm ready to move it to the main RDMA tree and start working on > > it from there where there won't be any cross tree dependency issues. > > You could leave it staging but manage it from the same git tree. It > avoids the cross tree dependencies. This is what we do for > drivers/staging/media/, all that stuff goes through the linux-media > tree. My concern is that we tried this before and it did not work. https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-rdma%40vger.kernel.org/msg27842.html https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-rdma%40vger.kernel.org/msg27858.html Shall we try it again? Ira _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
