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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 15:14:28 -0800
From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: PATCH - InfiniBand Access Layer (IBAL)
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> 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.

Andrew,

Thanks. I had wanted to convey the gist of what you say to someone
earlier this week.  It would have been nice to point to some document
that captures this, and though I looked around, I haven't found anything
in one place, surprisingly. It's a plea kernel maintainers frequently make
to Linux contributors, but new projects seem to run into the same problems
repeatedly. I figured it would be worth putting together your comments
and some basic related advice given to those wishing to get their
code into the kernel in a document. Hope that's ok.

File follows in a separate mail.

thanks,
Nivedita


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