netdev - Re: interdependencies with cxgb4 and iw

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Message-Id: <20180319.193440.1570733225238398675.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:34:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     swise@...ngridcomputing.com
Cc:     rajur@...lsio.com, dledford@...hat.com, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        jgg@...pe.ca, netdev@...r.kernel.org, bharat@...lsio.com,
        ganeshgr@...lsio.com, rahul.lakkireddy@...lsio.com
Subject: Re: interdependencies with cxgb4 and iw_cxgb4

From: Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:50:57 -0500

> Let me ask a dumb question:  Why cannot one of the maintaners pull the
> commit from the other mainainer's git repo directly?  IE why have this
> third trusted/signed git repo that has to be on k.o, from which both
> maintainers pull?  If one of you can pull it in via a patch series,
> like you do for all other patches, and then notify the other
> maintainer to pull it from the first maintainers' repo if the series
> meets the requirements that it needs to be in both maintainers'
> repositories?  This avoids adding more staging git repos on k.o.  But
> probably I'm missing something...

Tree A may not want all of tree B's changes, and vice versa.