[openib-general] Re: Plans for libibverbs 1.0, 1.1 and beyond

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: Plans for libibverbs 1.0, 1.1 and beyond
> 
>     Michael> I think the claim is that it's awkward to use different
>     Michael> tools to get different components.  Related question: can
>     Michael> git support working on just the infiniband subdirectory
>     Michael> of a tree?  Thats important e.g. for people that only
>     Michael> want to work on the infiniband stuff against the last
>     Michael> stable kernel.
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what you want to do.  In general a distributed
> SCM like git is much better for pulling changes from one tree to
> another.  So for example, it's easy to clone a kernel tree, check out
> the v2.6.15 tag, and then pull from my infiniband.git tree to get only
> the IB changes in a given branch.

So, each component gets a separate git tree?

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Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies