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.