Re: [PATCH] docbook: fix fatal rapidio yet again (and more to come)

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
> On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:11 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 May 2008 08:09:24 +1000 Paul Mackerras wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew Morton writes:
>>>
>>>>> Odd.  I thought Paul had picked up a docbook RapidIO patch from you in
>>>>> the latest merge round.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well it's more than "a" patch.  The six-week-old patch series is:
>>>>
>>>> rapidio-add-memory-mapping-driver-to-rapidio.patch
>>>> rapidio-add-rapidio-space-allocation-bitmap-arithmetic.patch
>>>> rapidio-add-fsl-rapidio-controller-memory-ops-functions.patch
>>>> rapidio-add-the-rapidio-master-port-maintance-and-doorbell-window-to-space-resources.patch 
>>>>
>>>> rapidio-add-rapidio-proc-fs-for-memory-mapping-debugging.patch
>>>> rapidio-add-the-memory-mapping-support-in-rionet-driver.patch
>>>> rapidio-fix-docbook-references.patch
>>>> rapidio-fix-kernel-doc-problems.patch
>>>
>>> What happened is that you (Andrew) sent them on to me pretty much
>>> unexamined.  I took a look at them and dropped one of them because it
>>> created a new /proc file.  I asked Kumar to look at them and he had
>>> issues with another three of the patches, and dropping those meant
>>> that all the following ones (including the fix-kernel-doc one)
>>> wouldn't apply, so I dropped them too.  I applied the rest and sent
>>> them to Linus.
>>>
>>>> (seems that I forgot to cc Jeff on the rionet change too).
>>>
>>> Yeah.  I nearly dropped that one too.  I probably should have. :)
>>>
>>>> Oh well.  If nobody puts their hand up in the next 24 hours or so 
>>>> I'll just
>>>> send it all in to Linus.
>>>
>>> Please don't.  At this stage I think the best thing is for Kumar to
>>> talk to Zhang Wei (they both work for Freescale, so that should be
>>> possible in theory :) and get him to rework the remaining patches as
>>> required for inclusion in 2.6.27.
>>
>> Just to be clear, the docbook changes shouldn't wait for 2.6.27.
>> There's no need for that.
> 
> Can the docbook be respun against linus's tree?

Sure, I'll do that later, hopefully tonight.

-- 
~Randy