From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org (smtp.osdl.org [65.172.181.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.osdl.org", Issuer "OSDL Hostmaster" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01CBF67A3A for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 22:43:34 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 05:43:12 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: =?ISO-8859-1?B?SvZybg==?= Engel Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] ehca: IBM eHCA InfiniBand Device Driver Message-Id: <20060503054312.b3978297.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060427125726.GK32127@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <4450B378.9000705@de.ibm.com> <20060427125726.GK32127@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: schickhj@de.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, RAISCH@de.ibm.com, HNGUYEN@de.ibm.com, MEDER@de.ibm.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:57:26 +0200 J=F6rn Engel wrote: > Don't expect much cheer and rejoicing over this. I suspect that akpm > or Linus will either want the 17 patches merged into one or have a > patchset where every single patch leaves the kernel in a working > state, including working eHCA driver. It doesn't matter in this case. The "don't break the build at any stage of a series" preference exists because it's extremely irritating to hit a won't-build in the middle of a git-bisect operation. But anybody who is bisection searching for a bug won't want to enable a brand-new driver in their config, so no problems.