hi michael, ... On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:41:08AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > For whom it may concern, > I have created an ofed git tree updated with kernel bits from 2.6.22-rc4, > and put that up at git://git.openfabrics.org/~mst/ofed_kernel.git > [...] > In particular, there were a ton of ipath patches that it seems were > for the most part applied. > Qlogic maintainers, please help double check that I did not miss something > of value.
thanks for setting this up, i'm still looking at the diffs to make sure things got setup correctly for the ipath stuff... i have found it difficult to navigate the source having to run: ./ofed_scripts/configure --kernel-version=2.6.xxx --without-quilt everytime to check against our tree. so, rather than spending the better part of the afternoon running these scripts by hand, i created a shell script to populate a bunch of branches with the backports in each branch. at qlogic we now keep the backports as branches in our git tree and this, i find, is much easier to handle. because: * viewing and navigating backport source becomes _much_ easier. * merges are easier -- patches are much more fragile than branches. * comparisons are easier -- checking for differences between backports and between a backport and the canonical source is faster and more convenient... * changesets are readable. trying to decipher diffs to patches is medically proven to take months, if not years, off your life. anyway, what do you think? is there anyway i could convince you to dump the backport patches and put all the backports in branches? i'm willing to do the legwork if you see value... arthur _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
