Re: [Scst-devel] scst/qla2xxx patches

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Hi Tony,

On 9/2/25 19:43, Tony Battersby via Scst-devel wrote:
> I have a number of patches to SCST and qla2xxx that I would like to
> submit.  These patches have been well-tested at my employer.  They are
> categorized as follows:
> 
> - 5 patches that can be applied directly to SCST immediately.
> - 15 patches that can be applied to qla2xxx in the upstream kernel and
> then backported into SCST.
> - 5 more patches that can be applied to SCST when backporting the
> qla2xxx patches from the upstream kernel.
> 
> Today I am just going to submit the initial batch of 5 patches that can
> be applied to SCST immediately.
> 
> Later when submitting the qla2xxx patches to the upstream kernel, my
> plan is to send both the kernel patches and the SCST patches to both the
> kernel mailing lists and the SCST mailing list, since the SCST patches
> depend on the qla2xxx kernel patches and provide more context for the
> kernel developers to accept the qla2xxx changes.  Alternately, I could
> send the kernel patches to the kernel mailing list and the SCST patches
> to the SCST mailing list.  Does anyone have a preference?
> 
> Tony Battersby
> https://www.cybernetics.com/
> 
> 
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I have applied your initial 5 patches to the current master branch.
Thanks for sending them.

As for your plan to send the additional SCST patches together with the 
qla2xxx changes: just as information, kernel maintainers usually do not 
consider out-of-tree drivers as a strong reason to accept changes in 
in-tree code. So the SCST dependency may not carry much weight upstream. 
That said, it certainly does no harm, and please feel free to CC scst 
devel when posting those patches — it will help us keep track of the 
context. I will apply the corresponding SCST patches once the related 
qla2xxx changes are backported here.

Thanks again for your contribution.

Gleb