From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 02:38:28 +0300 > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 09:37:54AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: >> On 03/23/2016 06:57 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote: >> > On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 02:37:08PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> So the *best* situation would be: >> >> >> >> - your two groups talk it over, and figure out what the common commits are >> >> >> >> - you put those common commits as a "base" branch in git >> >> >> >> - you ask the two upper-level maintainers to both pull that base branch >> >> >> >> - you then make sure that you send the later patches (whether as >> >> emailed patches or as pull requests) based on top of that base branch. >> > >> > Hi David and Doug, >> > >> > Are you OK with the approach suggested by Linus? >> > We are eager to know it, so we will adopt it as soon >> > as possible in our development flow. >> > >> > The original thread [1]. >> > >> > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.rdma/34907 >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> >> I'm fine with it. Since I happen to use topic branches to build my >> for-next from anyway, I might need to be the one that Dave pulls from >> versus the other way around. > > Resending to linux-netdev. > > David, > Can you please express your opinion about Linus's suggestion to > eliminate merge conflicts in Mellanox related products? Sure, sounds fine. -- 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
