From: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] ppc/vio: ensure dma_coherent_mask is set
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:44:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100915184456.GC3683@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=K+KudbVAqZGA9fXXWq-vXirh9SuSTEHSh=kgC@mail.gmail.com>
On 15.09.2010 [12:37:58 -0600], Grant Likely wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Without this change drivers, such as ibmvscsi, fail to load with the
> > previous change.
>
> Shouldn't this patch be ordered before the previous change then to
> preserve bisectability?
You are probably right. I wasn't sure if I should fold it in or keep it
separate. I should have changed the order, though. Sorry about that!
> Also, patch descriptions should be explicit about what the "previous
> change" refers to. Once this is committed, git log may very well
> insert other changes from other branches between this commit and
> whatever "previous change" refers to.
Yep -- what's the best way to make the reference? By subject from the
patch? Obviously I don't have the SHA1 with which the commit will go
upstream.
Thanks,
Nish
--
Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-15 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1284573958-8397-1-git-send-email-nacc@us.ibm.com>
2010-09-15 18:05 ` [PATCH 02/15] ppc64: fix dma_iommu_dma_supported compare Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-09-15 18:05 ` [PATCH 03/15] ppc64 iommu: fix check for direct DMA support Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-09-15 18:05 ` [PATCH 04/15] vio: put device on device_register failure Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-09-15 18:29 ` Grant Likely
2010-09-15 18:05 ` [PATCH 05/15] viobus: free TCE table on device release Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-09-15 18:05 ` [PATCH 06/15] pseries/dlpar: use kmemdup Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-09-15 18:05 ` [PATCH 07/15] ppc: pci-common cleanup Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-09-15 18:30 ` Grant Likely
2010-09-15 18:05 ` [PATCH 09/15] ppc/vio: use dma ops helpers Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-09-15 18:33 ` Grant Likely
2010-10-13 4:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-10-13 17:43 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-09-15 18:05 ` [PATCH 10/15] ppc/pasemi: clean up pasemi iommu table initializations Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-09-15 18:29 ` Olof Johansson
2010-09-15 18:05 ` [PATCH 11/15] ppc/cell: beat dma ops cleanup Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-09-16 11:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-15 18:05 ` [PATCH 12/15] ppc/dart: iommu table cleanup Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-09-15 18:05 ` [PATCH 13/15] ppc/pseries: iommu cleanup Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-09-15 18:34 ` Grant Likely
2010-09-15 18:05 ` [PATCH 14/15] ppc64 iommu: use coherent_dma_mask for alloc_coherent Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-11-29 0:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-12-01 0:31 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-09-15 18:05 ` [PATCH 15/15] ppc/vio: ensure dma_coherent_mask is set Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-09-15 18:37 ` Grant Likely
2010-09-15 18:44 ` Nishanth Aravamudan [this message]
2010-09-15 18:49 ` Grant Likely
2010-11-29 1:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-11-29 19:46 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-11-29 20:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-09-15 18:13 ` [PATCH 01/15] ppc: fix return type of BUID_{HI,LO} macros Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-09-16 22:54 ` Linas Vepstas
2010-09-16 23:04 ` Scott Wood
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20100915184456.GC3683@us.ibm.com \
--to=nacc@us.ibm.com \
--cc=brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
--cc=grant.likely@secretlab.ca \
--cc=linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org \
--cc=miltonm@bga.com \
--cc=paulus@samba.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).