Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932131AbWBRTxm (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:53:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932133AbWBRTxm (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:53:42 -0500 Received: from dsl093-040-174.pdx1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.40.174]:26807 "EHLO aria.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932131AbWBRTxl (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:53:41 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:53:27 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Roland Dreier 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. Message-ID: <20060218195327.GA1382@kroah.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: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1238 Lines: 28 On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:52:58AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > 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 Sorry, I didn't mean to say "private", but rather, "seperate". Doing kernel development in a seperate development tree from the mainline kernel is very problematic, as has been documented many times in the past. > Distro politics are just distro politics -- and there will always be > pressure on distros to ship stuff that's not upstream yet. Luckily the distros know better than to accept this anymore, as they have been burned too many times in the past... thanks, greg k-h - 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/