[ewg] Re: ipath backport patches for ofed-1.4

Ralph Campbell ralph.campbell at qlogic.com
Wed Aug 6 11:38:11 PDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:23 -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 14:45 +0300, Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
> > Hi Ralph,
> > Please prepare ipath backport patches for ofed-1.4:
> > 
> > git://git.openfabrics.org/ofed_1_4 ofed_kernel
> > 
> > The new backport patches required after merge with 2.6.27-rc1.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Vladimir
> 
> I can make individual backport patches for just the ipath
> driver but I also see that some changes like commit
> 8d8bb39b9eba32dd70e87fd5ad5c5dd4ba118e06 change ipath and
> core kernel and infiniband files. Sometimes a single
> backport patch is created by someone else that undoes this
> sort of change for all drivers and sometimes it is up to the
> individual driver owners.
> 
> So, how do we assign ownership?

It looks like this commit has already been split into separate
patches for IB core and mthca so I will make an ipath backport
patch with the appropriate change.




More information about the ewg mailing list