Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932106AbWBRSTg (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:19:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932107AbWBRSTg (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:19:36 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:9920 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932106AbWBRSTg (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:19:36 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:19:32 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Greg KH Cc: Roland Dreier , Arjan van de Ven , Muli Ben-Yehuda , Christoph Hellwig , Roland Dreier , 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. Message-ID: <20060218181932.GA6410@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Greg KH , Roland Dreier , Arjan van de Ven , Muli Ben-Yehuda , Roland Dreier , 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 References: <20060218005532.13620.79663.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20060218005707.13620.20538.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20060218015808.GB17653@kroah.com> <20060218122011.GE911@infradead.org> <20060218122631.GA30535@granada.merseine.nu> <1140265955.4035.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060218181509.GA892@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060218181509.GA892@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1582 Lines: 30 On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:15:09AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > 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? The openib tree isn't private. It's mostly just a staging area for development. Any company that wants it included into a distro release is completely clueless. - 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/