> On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. In that case: 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. http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/rdma.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ib_device_attr 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. -- Chuck Lever -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
