From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:21:23 +0000 Subject: Re: Altix I/O code reorganization Message-Id: <20040812162123.A2145@infradead.org> List-Id: References: <200408042014.i74KE8fD141211@fsgi900.americas.sgi.com> <411AAABB.8070707@sgi.com> <20040812101507.C5988@infradead.org> <200408120747.02508.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200408120747.02508.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>; from jbarnes@engr.sgi.com on Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:47:02AM -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jesse Barnes Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Patrick Gefre , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:47:02AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > Our platform does not currently support ACPI based PCI discovery and > configuration. My claim is that this patchset gets us closer to being able > to implement it. You aren't saying that any changes to the codebase should > be rejected until ACPI is 100% supported, are you? That seems like a silly > stance to take since it precludes incremental improvements in the codebase. Changes to the codebase are just fine. Adding new interface to the prom the duplicate the standard interface for that prupose on IA64 are not fine. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268589AbUHLPV6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:21:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268588AbUHLPV5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:21:57 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:6404 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268589AbUHLPVZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:21:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:21:23 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jesse Barnes Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Patrick Gefre , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Altix I/O code reorganization Message-ID: <20040812162123.A2145@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jesse Barnes , Patrick Gefre , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200408042014.i74KE8fD141211@fsgi900.americas.sgi.com> <411AAABB.8070707@sgi.com> <20040812101507.C5988@infradead.org> <200408120747.02508.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: <200408120747.02508.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>; from jbarnes@engr.sgi.com on Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:47:02AM -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 Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:47:02AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > Our platform does not currently support ACPI based PCI discovery and > configuration. My claim is that this patchset gets us closer to being able > to implement it. You aren't saying that any changes to the codebase should > be rejected until ACPI is 100% supported, are you? That seems like a silly > stance to take since it precludes incremental improvements in the codebase. Changes to the codebase are just fine. Adding new interface to the prom the duplicate the standard interface for that prupose on IA64 are not fine.