Re: [ANNOUNCE] scsi patch queue tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Mon May 19 2014 - 20:04:04 EST


Hi Christoph,

On Mon, 19 May 2014 07:06:14 -0700 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'd like to announce the new scsi patch queue tree, which will pick up
> any scsi core or driver patches promptly to allow easy integration and
> feedback that contributors might be used to from other kernel subsystems.
>
> There are two branches, one for the SCSI core and upper level drivers,
> and one for low-level (hardware) drivers:
>
> git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/scsi-queue.git core-for-3.16
> git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/scsi-queue.git drivers-for-3.16
>
> The rules for the tree are:
>
> - it has at least two positive reviews (non-author signoff, reviewed-by
> or acked-by tags). In practice this means it had at least one and
> I added another one.
> - no negative review on the mailing list
> - it applies cleanly
> - it compiles cleanly (drivers for architectures I can't test excluded)
> - for core the core branch: survives a full xfstests run
>
> I went through the linux-scsi archives for March, April and May and
> applied all patches that clearly fit the above criteria, but it's fairly
> like I missed some.
>
> If I'm missing your patch(es):
>
> - resend it unless it was sent in the last few weeks
> - make sure all reviews are recorded in the most recent post of the
> patch(es)
> - ping the list for additional reviewers
>
> For now the prime intent of the tree is to feed it to James, although
> I'd welcome everyone interested to pull and test it. If the scheme
> proves successful I'd love to invite more core scsi contributors to help
> with it and move to a shared kernel.org tree.

Is this a request for inclusion of those branches into linux-next
separately from the scsi tree itself?

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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