Re: [PATCH] 2.6 SGI Altix I/O code reorganization

Jesse Barnes
2004-10-07T16:52:02Z

On Thursday, October 7, 2004 8:02 am, Patrick Gefre wrote:
> > They should each be separate cleanup patches. What I've done in the past
> > is make copies (in this case 5) of the big patch. Then I edit all of
> > them to include only the hunks I want there. Hopefully that'll minimize
> > the pain of respinning the big patch (i.e. no respin). Also, Tony
> > doesn't want to deal with the above files, patches for them should be
> > sent to Andrew as separate mails with lkml in the cc list.
>
> These are not cleanup.
>
> The mmtimer code and sn_console include a file that doesn't exist anymore
> in the directory included - it's moved to somewhere else in the 002 patch.
>
> snsc.c, sgiioc4.c have changes for things that won't exist after this patch
> is applied.

Yeah, sorry, I shouldn't have said cleanup, fixup is better. Anyway, they
need to be separate since they'll be going into the tree via Andrew not Tony.

Thanks,
Jesse