On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. The NFS client parts look okay to me: Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> > > 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
