Re: [dpdk-dev] more maintainers with sub-trees

[Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 06:08:26PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> We now have 2 new maintainers managing their own sub-tree for some
> specific areas of DPDK:
> 	- Stephen Hemminger will maintain the driver bnx2x
> 	- Helin Zhang will maintain the driver i40e
> 
> These repositories can be browsed from the "next" section of this page:
> 	http://dpdk.org/browse/
> 
> Patches should still be sent to dev@dpdk.org for review.
> They will be applied to the sub-tree first, and will be merged in dpdk.git
> after a pull request is submitted.
> 
> More sub-trees can be created on demand.
> 
Can you describe the expected workflow for these subtrees?  I ask because it
seems a bit odd to have a separate subtrees for bnx2x (which doesn't appear to
exist in either tree yet) and i40e, while other pmd's all ostensibly still go
through your tree.  I presume that Stephen and Helin will send you merge
requests prior to -rc releases, and that for changes that affect pmd's
tree-wide, we can circumvent the subtree with Stephen/Helin's signoff?

Neil

> -- 
> Thomas
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