Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 0 of 53] ipath driver updates for2.6.17-rc4

From: Roger Heflin
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 11:59:58 EST


Roland Dreier wrote:
Umm... dumping a 53 patch series into the kernel at this stage in the
release cycle isn't going to work. You need to sort out the patches
that need to go into 2.6.17 from patches that can wait. For example,
a 1500+ line patch to factor out common code is clearly not
appropriate now. Pretty much the only patches that should be going in
now are changes that fix crashes or other serious bugs.

(You can send both sets of patches at the same time -- just let me
which ones are for 2.6.17 and which ones can be queued for 2.6.18)

I have some more specific comments in reply to individual patches,
although I didn't try to review all 53.

- R.


Roland,

What should these patches apply against?

I have tried rc4 and a number of them fail, and I have also
tried one of your gits (though maybe not the right one), and
at least some of the the same patches seem to fail to apply
there.

If I can get an idea what they should apply to I will apply them
against that and see how things look.

I have at least one of the nasty bugs that I know about.

Roger
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