Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263251AbUCNBON (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:14:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263254AbUCNBON (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:14:13 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:27582 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263251AbUCNBOJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:14:09 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:13:49 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Woodruff, Robert J" Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, sam@ravnborg.org, greg@kroah.com, miller@techsource.com, riel@redhat.com, matti.aarnio@zmailer.org, hch@infradead.org, woody@jf.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sean.hefty@intel.com, jerrie.l.coffman@intel.com, arlin.r.davis@intel.com, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com Subject: Re: PATCH - InfiniBand Access Layer (IBAL) Message-Id: <20040313171349.07349e4a.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1AC79F16F5C5284499BB9591B33D6F000B6306@orsmsx408.jf.intel.com> References: <1AC79F16F5C5284499BB9591B33D6F000B6306@orsmsx408.jf.intel.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1710 Lines: 34 "Woodruff, Robert J" wrote: > > The Mellanox and Topspin folks along with some people from some of > the national labs are trying to start up a website called openib.org, > with data bases, email lists, etc. where people can submit code for > this "best of breed" stack and discuss it. As long as it is truly > open, the linux community is allowed to participate, and the code > is evaluated on it's technical merits, rather than one companies > personal > agenda, this forum might serve as a way for us to sort through this > without > taking every issue to lkml. That is, of course, an excellent approach. But beware of being *too* disconnected from the lists@vger.kernel.org. We don't want to get in the situation where you pop up with a couple of person-years' worth of work and other kernel developers have major issues with it. Please find a balance - some way of regularly checkpointing. Also, beware of aiming for a finished product. We would *much* prefer that a simple, minimal core, maybe with just a single device driver be merged into the mainline kernel. The IBAL developers then proceed to enhance that, sending regular updates. Every couple of weeks would suit. That way everyone else can see the code evolving, and can help, and can understand. And other people will fix your bugs for you, and update your code as kernel-wide changes are implemented. And we all avoid nasty surprises and extensive rework. - 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/