RE: [PATCH 0/5] rdma/cxgb4: Add SRQ support for Chelsio adapters

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> 
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:51:42AM -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
> 
> > If we did this, and then chelsio does indeed have some cxgb4 patch
> > that really needs to be on top of the srq series, do we submit them
> > to be merged into linux-rdma with Dave's ACK?  Or does Dave pull in
> > the prereq srq series?
> 
> Without a k.o account and a PR the patches can only be in one tree at
> a time.
> 
> > Or are you saying, if such a patch is inevitable, then the srq
> > series needs to be pulled into both Netdev and linux-rdma.
> 
> In this case you'd probably have to wait for the next major kernel
> version to send that series to netdev.
> 

That isn't acceptable, I think.  Chelsio cxgb4 changes need to flow regularly.

> We don't really want to merge netdev only things into rdma exclusively.
> 
> > This is tricky.
> 
> Yes!
> 

Given Chelsio has iscsi, fcoe, TLS/crypto, and iwarp drivers on top of the NIC driver, I think this circumstance will happen more going forward.  I'm leaning to a PR from a chelsio-maintained k.o repo... ☹





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