[rds-devel] rds upstream backlog

[Andy Grover]

On 07/18/2010 01:37 PM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> Looking on net/rds @ the oss hosted rds git, vs Linus tree, its seems like
> there has been quite a while since you've pushed code upstream and a huge
> pile of patches is carried out-of-tree and actually not exposed to the
> outside world except for 2-3 people (e.g AG, ZB, CM) its
> http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=agrover/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=net/rds;hb=HEADvs.
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=net/rds;hb=HEADwouldn't
> it be easier for you start pushing things upstream? if pushing it
> all to 2.6.36 is too much, how about doing this twenty patches at a time
> (e.g a week...).

Hi Or,

I definitely would like to push all of this upstream. The current 
blockers for this are some serious bugs we're still seeing on unload, 
and loopback connection hangs, in addition to some commits needing 
proper changelogs.

You suggestion to start pushing stuff in pieces might be a good way to 
proceed, I'll think about doing that.

(BTW our work is on a public git repo so it's not like we're hacking 
away in private, but I agree working more closely against mainline is best.)

Regards -- Andy