From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:19:20 +0000 Subject: Re: Altix I/O code reorganization Message-Id: <200408060919.20993.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> List-Id: References: <200408042014.i74KE8fD141211@fsgi900.americas.sgi.com> <20040806141836.A9854@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20040806141836.A9854@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Pat Gefre , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday, August 6, 2004 6:18 am, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Yikes, this is truely horrible. First your patch ordering doesn't make > any sense, with just the first patch applied the system won't work at all. > Please submit a series of _small_ patches going from A to B keeping the > code working everywhere inbetween. Much of this stuff is clearly interdependent (and dependent on PROM changes), so I don't think that would make sense. Jesse From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268177AbUHFQX6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 12:23:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268168AbUHFQVd (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 12:21:33 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:29117 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268172AbUHFQVO (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 12:21:14 -0400 From: Jesse Barnes To: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Altix I/O code reorganization Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:19:20 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Pat Gefre , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200408042014.i74KE8fD141211@fsgi900.americas.sgi.com> <20040806141836.A9854@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20040806141836.A9854@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408060919.20993.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday, August 6, 2004 6:18 am, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Yikes, this is truely horrible. First your patch ordering doesn't make > any sense, with just the first patch applied the system won't work at all. > Please submit a series of _small_ patches going from A to B keeping the > code working everywhere inbetween. Much of this stuff is clearly interdependent (and dependent on PROM changes), so I don't think that would make sense. Jesse