[openib-general] [PATCH] for OFED 1.2

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Feb 27 08:55:32 PST 2007


> Quoting Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] for OFED 1.2
> 
> >Please send patches that will be added to kernel_patches/fixes.
> >
> >Please update your git tree from
> >git://git.openfabrics.org/~vlad/ofed_1_2/.git  ofed_1_2
> 
> You want me to create a patch that adds a file that contains the actual patches?
> 
> Why not apply the patches directly?

That's the ofed structure, this was discussed multiple times already.
The point is to keep all changes to upstream components separate,
to make updating to upstream kernel trivial in the future.

Worked quite well for OFED 1.1 -> 1.2 transition.

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MST




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