[RFC PATCH 00/15] staging/rdma/hfi1: Initial patches to add rdmavt support in HFI1

[gregkh at linuxfoundation.org]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 01:12:14AM -0500, ira.weiny wrote:
> Greg, Doug,
> 
> As mentioned below, these patches depend on the new rdmavt library submitted to
> Doug on linux-rdma.
> 
> We continue to identify (and rework) patches by our other developers which can
> be submitted without conflicts with this series.  Furthermore, We have, as much
> as possible, placed fixes directly into rdmavt such that those changes can be
> dropped from hfi1.  But at this point, we need to know if and where these are
> going to land so that we can start reworking as appropriate.
> 
> Therefore, I would like to discuss plans to get hfi1 under the same maintainer
> to work through this transitional period.
> 
> Basically, At what point should we stop submitting patches to Greg and start
> submitting to Doug?
> 
> Should we consider the merge window itself as the swap over point and submit
> changes to Doug at that point?  If so, should we continue to submit what we can
> to Greg until then (and continue rebase'ing the series below on that work)?  Or
> given Gregs backlog, should we stop submitting to Greg sometime prior to the
> merge window?
> 
> That brings up my final question, at the point of swap over I assume anything
> not accepted by Greg should be considered rejected and we need to resubmit to
> Doug?

If Doug accepts the library changes, let me know that public git commit
and I can pull it into the staging-next branch and you can continue to
send me staging patches that way.

That's the easiest thing to do usually.

thanks,

greg k-h