[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 00/16] ehca: IBM eHCA InfiniBand Device Driver

Heiko Joerg Schick info at schihei.de
Thu Apr 27 12:50:28 PDT 2006


On 2006-04-27 14:57:26 +0200, Jörn Engel <joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> said:

> Don't expect much cheer and rejoicing over this.  I suspect that akpm
> or Linus will either want the 17 patches merged into one or have a
> patchset where every single patch leaves the kernel in a working
> state, including working eHCA driver.

I don't like the idea to put the whole driver in one patch file. I 
would propose to put the patch "ehca: integration in Linux kernel" last 
instead
of first, as Arnd mentioned. With that change we leave the kernel in a
working state when applying the patches.

Regards,
	Heiko





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