[ewg] Question: When should patches be submitted to EWG and when should they be submitted to linux-rdma?

[Mike Heinz]

Thanks to everyone for the feedback and the explanation. I'm going to save off Woody's answer to our in house wiki so my co-workers won't have the same confusion.

-----Original Message-----
From: Woodruff, Robert J [mailto:robert.j.woodruff at intel.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 6:58 PM
To: Mike Heinz; Openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
Subject: RE: [ewg] Question: When should patches be submitted to EWG and when should they be submitted to linux-rdma?

In general, we would like kernel code to be reviewed and accepted (or at least queued for
acceptance) upstream first and then submitted to to the ewg for the next OFED release.

There are sometimes exceptions where things go into OFED before being accepted
upstream but in general, we would like to follow the model where they are 
submitted upsteam first if possible.

Some things, like backport patches or OFED installation scripts, 
are only mainatained by the EWG, so in those cases, they only need to 
be submitted to the EWG list.

Hope this helps.

woody
 

-----Original Message-----
From: ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:ewg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Mike Heinz
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:34 PM
To: Openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
Subject: [ewg] Question: When should patches be submitted to EWG and when should they be submitted to linux-rdma?

The subject says it all. If I have a patch that can be applied against either the current OFED git repository or against the upstream kernel - where do I post it?
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