From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net (shards.monkeyblade.net [IPv6:2001:4f8:3:36:211:85ff:fe63:a549]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C901A0C23 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:38:04 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:54:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20151027.175443.140992924519172506.davem@davemloft.net> To: keith.busch@intel.com Cc: nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com, willy@linux.intel.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, aik@ozlabs.ru, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au, hch@infradead.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5 v3] Fix NVMe driver support on Power with 32-bit DMA From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20151027223643.GA25332@localhost.localdomain> References: <20151026.182746.1323901353520152838.davem@davemloft.net> <20151027222010.GD7716@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20151027223643.GA25332@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: "Busch, Keith" Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:36:43 +0000 > If you're suggesting to compile-time break architectures that currently > work just fine with NVMe, let me stop you right there. Silently "working" without the architecture maintainer having to explicity look at the new interface and make sure his platform is implementing it properly is an extremely bad practice.