Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932113AbWBRSxF (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:53:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932114AbWBRSxF (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:53:05 -0500 Received: from sj-iport-3-in.cisco.com ([171.71.176.72]:9853 "EHLO sj-iport-3.cisco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932113AbWBRSxE (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:53:04 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.02,127,1139212800"; d="scan'208"; a="407065025:sNHT35020288" To: Greg KH Cc: 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. X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information 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> From: Roland Dreier Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:52:58 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20060218181509.GA892@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:15:09 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Feb 2006 18:52:59.0410 (UTC) FILETIME=[89A00720:01C634BC] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1450 Lines: 29 Greg> Checking stuff into a private svn tree is vastly different Greg> from posting to lkml in public. In fact, it looks like the Greg> svn tree is so far ahead of the in-kernel stuff, that most Greg> people are just using it instead of the in-kernel code. It's not a private svn tree -- the IBM ehca development is available to anyone via svn at https://openib.org/svn/gen2/trunk/src/linux-kernel/infiniband/hw/ehca Greg> I know at least one company has asked a distro to just Greg> accept the svn snapshot over the in-kernel IB code, which Greg> makes me wonder if the in-kernel stuff is even useful to Greg> people? Why have it, if companies insist on using the Greg> out-of-tree stuff instead? The IB driver stack is still in its early stages, so although I'm pushing for things to be merged as fast as possible, the unfortunate fact is that lots of things that people want to use (including the IBM ehca driver) are not upstream and are not ready to go upstream yet. But that doesn't mean we should give up on merging them. Distro politics are just distro politics -- and there will always be pressure on distros to ship stuff that's not upstream yet. - R. - 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/