[ofa-general] Re: Merge process for OFED patches
Bart Van Assche
bart.vanassche at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 07:39:54 PDT 2009
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote:
> > I noticed that there are seven SRP patches (bug fixes) present in OFED
> > 1.4.1 that are not present in mainstream Linux kernels up to and
> > including version 2.6.30. Do you know whether it is documented
> > anywhere which process is followed for merging such patches in the
> > mainstream Linux kernel ?
>
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches?
>
> Seriously, someone has to send the patches for them to get applied.
This should be done by the original patch author.
I would like to contact the author of the fourth patch. But
unfortunately I could not find any author information in that patch.
Bart.
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