From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:22:48 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 SGI Altix I/O code reorganization Message-Id: <200410071022.48569.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Patrick Gefre , Grant Grundler , Colin Ngam , Matthew Wilcox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Thursday, October 7, 2004 10:06 am, Luck, Tony wrote: > >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. > > A couple of days back I said that I'm ok pushing these drivers. > Although they don't have "arch/ia64" or "include/asm-ia64" > prefixes, they are only used by ia64. I'm even ok with the > qla1280.c change as the final version is only touching code > inside #ifdef CONFIG_IA64_{GENERIC|SN2) ... but I would like > to see a sign-off from the de-facto maintainer Christoph for > this file. Ok great, that'll help keep things in good shape. > However ... there's a thread on LKML wailing about huge changes > going into "-rc" releases. Since there still seems to be > a lively discussion about the the right way to do the pci_root > bits of this patch, I'm very inclined to save this till *after* > Linus release 2.6.9-final. If there's a _mostly_ clean patch > presented to me before 2.6.10-rc1 shows up, I'll push that and > allow for some follow-on tidy-up patches to clean up. Sounds good, thanks Tony. Jesse