[PATCH] update f12 fcoe related kernel code

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:45:36PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:05:53PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
>>  > Hi,
>>  >  > Sorry for the large patch. I was not sure how I should do this.
>>  >  > I am trying to update the fcoe related (fcoe, libfc, ixgbe, fnic 
>> and  > dcb) kernel code that is going into fedora 12. The attached 
>> patch  > updates the fedora 12 kernel to what is in the SCSI maintainer 
>> and  > network maintainer's trees for 2.6.32-rc1. For scsi this is the  
>>  > scsi-misc tree  > 
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git;a=summary 
>>  >   and for networking this is the net-next tree  > 
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git;a=summary.
>>  This scares me.  We're shipping 2.6.31 because we can't justify the 
>> risk
>> of shipping rc code in a final release. With huge amounts of change
>> like this, we're essentially doing the same thing.
>
> There is actually going to be more patches :( There are maybe 50+ other  
> patches floating around the linux scsi and fcoe lists that are not yet  
> in the scsi maintainer's tree. I was going to send those patches once  
> the review for those other patches was done upstream and the scsi  
> maintainer had taken them.

The kernel has already branched for F-12.  From a rel-eng standpoint, this
looks like a poor idea.  Particularly, as Dave points out, there are lots of
changes all over the place and you said there are even more not merged yet.

I'm pretty sure rel-eng is not going to be happy with this at all, and I
suggest punting it to F-13.  RHEL is outside of the scope of the Fedora
kernel.

josh