linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] scsi patch queue tree

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Message-ID: <20140520100343.31490551@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 20 May 2014 10:03:43 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] scsi patch queue tree

Hi Christoph,

On Mon, 19 May 2014 07:06:14 -0700 Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> 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?

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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