From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjorn Helgaas Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:09:42 +0000 Subject: Re: + revert-gregkh-pci-pci-x86-use-generic-pci_enable_resources.patch added to -mm tree Message-Id: <200804011109.43046.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> List-Id: References: <200803282348.m2SNmleP016847@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <200804010957.16459.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20080401100050.009cec7b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080401100050.009cec7b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andrew Morton Cc: davem@davemloft.net, greg@kroah.com, m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tony Luck , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Ivan Kokshaysky On Tuesday 01 April 2008 11:00:50 am Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:57:15 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > On Friday 28 March 2008 05:48:47 pm akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > > > > > > The patch titled > > > revert gregkh-pci-pci-x86-use-generic-pci_enable_resources > > > has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is > > > revert-gregkh-pci-pci-x86-use-generic-pci_enable_resources.patch > > > > OK, I'm not sure where we are with this. Ben listed arches where > > the generic pci_enable_resources() should be safe: x86, alpha, and > > powerpc. I think we should also include ia64, since I work on that. > > > > If there's no objection to those arches, how should we move forward? > > Since Andrew put in "revert gregkh-pci" patches rather than just > > dropping things, I assume the original patches are in Greg KH's tree. > > > > Can we just drop the "revert gregkh" patches for x86, alpha, powerpc, > > and ia64? > > So powerpc is OK but ppc might not be? I suppose Ben is the expert on that, and he did say he thought both powerpc and ppc would be OK. I think we just care less about ppc because powerpc is the new converged one. Bjorn