Re: [PATCH] add iommu_num_pages helper function

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:41:56 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> > ok, i'll apply the 3 patches to tip/x86/iommu. As usual, feel free to 
> > send IOMMU cleanups/generalizations/fixes against tip/master:
> > 
> >   http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README
> 
> So, I assume a patch created on July 25 is not destined for 2.6.27, 
> right?  Especially since it breaks another architecture build and has 
> only made it to linux-next on July 29 ... and needs more work given 
> the comments already on this patch.

Correct, they were not intended for immediate upstream merging, they 
werent even in auto-x86-next so there was no meaningful linux-next 
exposure.

I was surprised they went upstream via the PCI tree yesterday, just 
hours after i sent them over to Jesse and about an hour before -rc1 was 
released. [ Nor did intend the core/generic-dma-coherent bits to go 
upstream right before -rc1 - although those seem to be problem-free so 
far. ]

I stopped sending non-urgent patches to Linus days ago, to let things 
calm down for a smooth -rc1 release.

	Ingo