On 12/12/2018 6:19 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 12:42:30PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote:
What if we create a git hook that tracks any updates to our local for-
next branch and whenever we do an update that modifies anything in
include/uapi/rdma it triggers a message to perform a headers update in
rdma-core?
This has to be done by the submitter before kernel patches are
accepted because we require PR's for userspace compoments of kernel
features before applying the kernel features..
So, the developer has to put the right kernel headers into their
rdma-core to develop, test and push their rdma-core work..
The update script is the simplest way to do that I can see..
I guess we could let people hand roll their kernel update patches (but
why?) so long as the maintainer re-writes them.
Just getting people to put their kernel header updates into a single
patch is an education process that isn't so easy.
As long as there is a README that explains step by step what you guys
want that should suffice. Yes it's a complicated process, but one that
isn't done all that often so it's manageable.
-Denny
