From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E75679F3 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:05:30 +1000 (EST) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FZCeg-0001F7-0p for linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:00:02 +0200 Received: from p508176ef.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.129.118.239]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:00:02 +0200 Received: from info by p508176ef.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:00:02 +0200 To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org From: Heiko Joerg Schick Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] ehca: IBM eHCA InfiniBand Device Driver Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:50:28 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4450B378.9000705@de.ibm.com> <20060427125726.GK32127@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: news Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 2006-04-27 14:57:26 +0200, Jörn Engel said: > 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. I don't like the idea to put the whole driver in one patch file. I would propose to put the patch "ehca: integration in Linux kernel" last instead of first, as Arnd mentioned. With that change we leave the kernel in a working state when applying the patches. Regards, Heiko