Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:14:10 -0700 | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rdma: Add Jason as a co-maintainer |
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On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 05:54:34PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Thanks Doug for having added a co-maintainer. Jason, thank you for willing > to be a co-maintainer.
Thank you Bart!
> Jason, if you are going to send pull requests to Linus you should be aware > of the following:
I think we will work up to that, obviously I will be working with Doug and his expertise and experience will guide what happens.
A new git tree has been setup for RDMA:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma.git/
This will replace Doug's personal k.o tree effective immediately as the cannonical source for the RDMA work in progress.
Both Doug and I have write privileges to this tree.
> * Linus trusts pull requests from a kernel.org repository more than pull > requests from a repository outside kernel.org (e.g. github). Any requests > to pull from e.g. github must be PGP-signed.
Done
> * If you send an e-mail to Wu Fengguang then he will add a branch from your > repository to his zero-day testing. This is a great way to catch build > failures before linux-next catches these.
Thanks
> * Any patches that will be sent to Linus must have been in the for-next > repository for at least a few days. Requests to add a branch to linux-next > should be sent to Stephen Rothwell with linux-next in Cc.
Doug will send Stephen Rothwell a note to move his for-next pull for RDMA from Doug's personal directory to:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma.git
Branch k.o/for-next
> * Maintainers are expected to keep an eye on merge conflicts and other reports > sent out to the linux-next mailing list > (http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-next).
Good advice..
> * Rebasing a tree that will be sent to Linus is completely inacceptable. A > quote from Linus: "And in general, you simply should never rebase commits > that have already been publicized." Source: Linus Torvalds, Re: linux-next: > Signed-off-by missing for commit in the drivers-x86 tree, linux-next mailing > list, 2 August 2017 (https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2571584.html).
Yes, of course
> * Backmerging (merging a later rc into a maintainer tree) to pull in rc fixes > from other maintainers is considered inacceptable too. If patches from other > maintainers are really needed I think it is acceptable to merge a maintainer > tree into Linus' tree and to apply late rc patches on top of that merged > tree.
Yes, this gets tricky if two trees have to coordinate..
Jason
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