HFI1 code duplication todo

ira.weiny ira.weiny at intel.com
Sat Nov 21 15:53:47 UTC 2015


On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 01:25:23AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:41:16AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote:
> > So, as to the hfi1/qib/rxe transport library.  The qib driver is in the
> > rdma tree, and we aren't going to move it to staging just because it
> > depends on something in staging, so we need to start adding the library
> > in the core tree to avoid dependency issues.  As for the hfi1 driver,
> > I'm of the opinion that putting it in staging because of the code
> > duplication issue was probably not the right thing to do.  It's
> > benefited from the extra eyes on it to help make it a better driver, but
> > I think I'm ready to move it to the main RDMA tree and start working on
> > it from there where there won't be any cross tree dependency issues.
> 
> You could leave it staging but manage it from the same git tree.  It
> avoids the cross tree dependencies.  This is what we do for
> drivers/staging/media/, all that stuff goes through the linux-media
> tree.

My concern is that we tried this before and it did not work.

https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-rdma%40vger.kernel.org/msg27842.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-rdma%40vger.kernel.org/msg27858.html

Shall we try it again?

Ira



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