[openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] - Chelsio T3 Git Repositories

[Steve Wise]

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 14:21 -0800, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> Steve wrote,
> >Yea maybe.  For now, you get everything I need to make cxgb3 run on
> >2.6.19.  I'll think about the multiple branch approach. 
> 
> The issue is this. I am working on putting together an OFA integration
> tree that integrates several components from several different
> developers.
> The same will be true when we start to integrate code into OFED 1.2.
> Most code will come from Linus's tree, but some code will need to
> come directly from the developer's git trees and we will need 
> a way to generate a patch for only your code, as we will get things like
> the local_sa cache code directly from Sean's. 
> 
> So if you can make a branch that only contains the cxgb3 code, it makes
> generating a patch with only your code easier, and this will be needed
> both for my early OFA integration work and also for OFED 1.2. 
> Once your code is upstream, life is easier as we will get it from
> linus, until then we'd like a way to patch the existing released kernel
> (2.6.19 in this case) with your code. 
> 
> make sense ?

I understand.