[openib-general] Re: was [PATCH] enable the fmr pool user to set the page size - 2 Q on upstream pushes

[Or Gerlitz]

Roland Dreier wrote:
> Seems reasonable.  Unfortunately we just missed the 2.6.16-rc1 window
> so I think this should wait for the 2.6.17 window.

We have two questions related to upstream pushes on which it would be 
really helpful if you can help resolving:

first, what does it means that the 2.6.16-rc1 window was missed? what 
changes makes sense for non -rc1 releases? is it correct that the parity 
of the X minor number in 2.6.X relates to which changes can be pushed? 
that is for even X (eg 2.6.14/16) only bug fixes and for odd X (eg 
2.6.15/17) also new features (eg srp & open-iscsi "waited" for 2.6.15)?

Second, I've noted upstream pushes (eg Sean's and yours) are done from 
git source trees. The natural code flow would be from the openib svn 
tree to the git tree. But as of the openib convention to work against 
the latest stable kernel (2.6.15) one can't commit into the svn changes 
depending in a code which is not in the latest stable kernel yet. So i 
understand you keep such changes in a git tree and when the next latest 
kernel is releases merge them into the svn (eg the replacement of all 
semaphores to mutexes). We will be just to happy to know that's the 
process more or less.

Is there an FAQ explaining all this...?

(many) thanks,

Or.