Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755336AbbGCRSa (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2015 13:18:30 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-f176.google.com ([209.85.213.176]:37727 "EHLO mail-ig0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755300AbbGCRS2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2015 13:18:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150703153646.GA11227@kroah.com> References: <32E1700B9017364D9B60AED9960492BC257567C3@fmsmsx120.amr.corp.intel.com> <20150626165401.GA14699@kroah.com> <20150703153646.GA11227@kroah.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 10:18:07 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: PPUneTh4fJ9XrOQrL2jVblo55qE Message-ID: Subject: Re: Deprecating ipath To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Dalessandro, Dennis" , "Marciniszyn, Mike" , Borislav Petkov , Ingo Molnar , One Thousand Gnomes , Doug Ledford , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3034 Lines: 75 On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 01:25:25PM +0000, Dalessandro, Dennis wrote: >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: linux-rdma-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-rdma- >> > owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Greg Kroah-Hartman >> > Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 12:54 PM >> > To: Luis R. Rodriguez >> > Cc: Marciniszyn, Mike; Borislav Petkov; Ingo Molnar; One Thousand Gnomes; >> > Doug Ledford; linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> > Subject: Re: Deprecating ipath >> > >> > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 09:23:27AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Marciniszyn, Mike >> > > wrote: >> > > > Doug, >> > > > >> > > > We have been given the go ahead to start the deprecation process for >> > thie ipath driver. >> > > >> > > That's great! Do you mean removal from Linux? >> > > >> > > > What do I need to do to get that done? >> > > >> > > Feature removal txt file was removed from the kernel so there is no >> > > "schedule" per se, not sure what the process these days is for driver >> > > removal. How about punting it to staging for a release or two and then >> > > remove it? Not sure if that would be frowned upon or welcomed. >> > >> > That is the process for driver removal, so of course it is welcomed :) >> > >> > > That would have the cost of moving history through directories but git >> > > --follow helps with that these days. The gain of moving it to staging >> > > IMHO would be that if anyone who might care would need to complain >> > may >> > > do so for a directory change for 1-2 release may spot this easily and >> > > the issues would be much less than an immediate removal. >> > >> > Yes, that's why we do it this way. >> > >> > Mike, feel free to send me a patch for this if you want me to queue it up for >> > 4.3. For 4.2 it's too late. >> > >> > thanks, >> > >> > greg k-h >> > -- >> >> Greg, how would you like to consume that patch? There are a number of large >> files. We can break things up into a series and send through email. We could >> also post a repo somewhere that you can do a pull from. Something else? > > If you use -M to 'git format-patch' when generating a patch, it will > show that you just moved the files around the directory tree, and the > patch should be quite small and easy to email and review. > > In fact, you should use that as a default for all patches, as it's now a > standard that normal patch can use to consume, I have this in my > .gitalias file: > [alias] > fp = format-patch -M > > and just use 'git fp' all the time. And if you still want to use default regular commands then you can use: [diff] renamelimit=0 Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/