[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] IB/iser: do I/O path allocations with GFP_NOIO

[Roland Dreier]

    Mike> Should iser patches have linux-scsi ccd on them in the
    Mike> future? And should they go through the scsi maintainer
    Mike> normally (I understand they cannot now since James does not
    Mike> have all the infinniband bits)? I am really just trying to
    Mike> avoid any coordinatation issues that come about by having
    Mike> core iscsi and tcp iscsi patched sent to the scsi maintainer
    Mike> then having to have iser going through Roland.

    Mike> Does srp go from openib-general and Roland then to lkml? For
    Mike> iscsi we do not go through net-dev and we live in
    Mike> drivers/scsi so maybe we are the odd driver?:) What is the
    Mike> proper or normal procedure?

It's a problem because SRP and iSER are straddling both the SCSI and
IB worlds.  Probably the best policy is to cc all relevant mailing
lists (at least linux-scsi and openib-general) whenever there's a
doubt about who should see something.

As far as merging patches goes, I've been merging SRP changes directly
to Linus, except for generic fixes to <scsi/srp.h>, which I've been
sending through James.  Or felt that iSCSI should be merged through my
tree, but I have no problem if in the future patches bypass my tree.
(But I would like to be cc'ed on changes to IB stuff, especially core
things outside of specific drivers)

(Which all reminds me I have a question about SCSI EH and SRP to send
to the linux-scsi list...)

 - R.