From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 10:58:54 +0000 Subject: Re: Altix I/O code reorganization Message-Id: <20040807115854.A17606@infradead.org> List-Id: References: <200408042014.i74KE8fD141211@fsgi900.americas.sgi.com> <20040806141836.A9854@infradead.org> <200408060919.20993.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200408060919.20993.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>; from jbarnes@engr.sgi.com on Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:19:20AM -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jesse Barnes Cc: Pat Gefre , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:19:20AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > 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. It's not. E.g. hwgraph removal and dma code rework aren't related to hiding of lots of interfaces in the firmware at all. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261451AbUHGK67 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 06:58:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261602AbUHGK67 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 06:58:59 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:53260 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261451AbUHGK64 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 06:58:56 -0400 Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 11:58:54 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jesse Barnes Cc: Pat Gefre , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Altix I/O code reorganization Message-ID: <20040807115854.A17606@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jesse Barnes , Pat Gefre , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200408042014.i74KE8fD141211@fsgi900.americas.sgi.com> <20040806141836.A9854@infradead.org> <200408060919.20993.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200408060919.20993.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>; from jbarnes@engr.sgi.com on Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:19:20AM -0700 X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:19:20AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > 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. It's not. E.g. hwgraph removal and dma code rework aren't related to hiding of lots of interfaces in the firmware at all.