[ewg] Re: RFC: pull from 2.6.21

Steve Wise swise at opengridcomputing.com
Mon Mar 12 13:39:48 PDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 22:24 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Quoting Steve Wise <swise at opengridcomputing.com>:
> > Subject: Re: RFC: pull from 2.6.21
> > 
> > For the chelsio drivers, you're gonna have problems since they are now
> > in 2.6.21.  So pulling will result in a collision since you committed
> > these directly into ofed_1_2 (no common ancestor for the merge).   
> 
> Yes we'll have ot replace these.
> 
> > However if you want to do this, I'm all for it so that the code bases
> > are aligned exactly as of 2.6.21.  The code isn't very different except
> > that I did more clean up work for 2.6.21 (like getting rid of the core
> > directory).
> 
> Will there be problems with backports?

There were only one or two commits to drivers/net/cxgb3 that didn't get
pulled into ofed_1_2.  So the backport pain should be minor.

> Are you OK with fixing them if necessary?
> 

Yes I will fix them, assuming they're easy :-)


> > If you do this, then are you comitting to do a final pull when 2.6.21
> > goes gold?
> 
> Depends on the time scale, but basically yes.
> 





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