[openib-general] [PATCH] for OFED 1.2

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Feb 27 09:18:14 PST 2007


> Quoting Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] for OFED 1.2
> 
> >Yes, actual patches should be created under kernel_patches/fixes.
> >
> >Please update your git tree because the following patch fails:
> 
> Can you explain how the patch fails?  I don't see how putting the patch into a
> file helps.

Try applying it?

> >> Why not apply the patches directly?
> >>
> >To be consistent with 2.6.20 kernel.
> 
> You can check out stock 2.6.20 using a tag.  Why maintain the ofed code in git
> if you don't use it to track patches?

Basically so that conflicts in future merges from upstream are easy to resolve.
If you like, let's reopen this for 1.3. We are after freeze in OFED 1.2.

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MST




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