From: Saeed Mahameed <sae...@mellanox.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 19:22:34 +0200
> This pull request includes one patch from Leon, this patch as described > below will change the driver directory structure and layout for better, > logical and modular driver files separation. > > This change is important to both rdma and net maintainers in order to > have smoother management of driver patches for different mlx5 sub modules > and smoother rdma-next vs. net-next features submissions. > > Please find more info below -in the tag commit message-, > review and let us know if there's any problem. > > This change doesn't introduce any conflicts with the current mlx5 > fixes and cleanups posted on 2017-01-10 to net branch, and merge tests > worked flawlessly with no issues. > > This is the last pull request meant for both rdma-next and net-next. > Once pulled, this will be the base shared code for both trees. This is pretty crazy, it will make all bug fix backporting to -stable a complete nightmare for myself, Doug, various distribution maintainers and many other people who quietly have to maintain their own trees and do backporting. I really don't think you can justify this rearrangement based upon the consequences and how much activity happens in this driver. You should have thought long and hard about the layout a long time ago rather than after the driver has been in the tree for many years. Sorry.
