Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:15:09 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, openib-general@openib.org,
       SCHICKHJ@de.ibm.com, RAISCH@de.ibm.com, HNGUYEN@de.ibm.com,
       MEDER@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/22] Firmware interface code for IB device.
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 08:32:28AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Arjan> The bigger issue is: if people can't be bothered to do
>     Arjan> those steps, why would they be bothered to do this for
>     Arjan> maintenance and bugfixes etc etc?  Basically it's now
>     Arjan> already a de-facto unmaintained driver....
> 
> I don't think that's really a fair statement.  The IBM people have
> been active and responsive in maintaining their driving in the
> openib.org svn tree.  However, they asked me to post their driver for
> review because it would be difficult for them to do it.

Checking stuff into a private svn tree is vastly different from posting
to lkml in public.  In fact, it looks like the svn tree is so far ahead
of the in-kernel stuff, that most people are just using it instead of
the in-kernel code.

I know at least one company has asked a distro to just accept the svn
snapshot over the in-kernel IB code, which makes me wonder if the
in-kernel stuff is even useful to people?  Why have it, if companies
insist on using the out-of-tree stuff instead?

thanks,

greg k-h
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