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From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: joerg.roedel@amd.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	rth@twiddle.net, paulus@samba.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, muli@il.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] sparc64: use iommu_num_pages function in IOMMU code
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:04:21 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080805110416E.tomof@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080804.142834.171476315.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:28:34 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:04:50 +0200
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
> 
> So we rename, then convert everything back.
> 
> This seems like a lot of commit masterbation for what is
> clearly one single change.

The first patch adds a helper function, iommu_nr_pages(). Then the
following patches (or a single patch) convert all the IOMMUs to use
it.

If we really like 'iommu_num_pages' function name, then a single patch
can replace all iommu_nr_pages().

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-05  2:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-04 16:04 [PATCH 0/10] introduce generic iommu_num_pages function Joerg Roedel
2008-08-04 16:04 ` [PATCH 01/10] x86: rename iommu_num_pages function to iommu_nr_pages Joerg Roedel
2008-08-04 16:04 ` [PATCH 02/10] sparc64: " Joerg Roedel
2008-08-04 21:27   ` David Miller
2008-08-04 16:04 ` [PATCH 03/10] powerpc: " Joerg Roedel
2008-08-04 16:04 ` [PATCH 04/10] introduce generic iommu_num_pages function Joerg Roedel
2008-08-04 16:04 ` [PATCH 05/10] x86: convert GART driver to " Joerg Roedel
2008-08-04 16:04 ` [PATCH 06/10] x86, AMD IOMMU: convert " Joerg Roedel
2008-08-04 16:04 ` [PATCH 07/10] x86: convert Calgary IOMMU " Joerg Roedel
2008-08-04 16:09   ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-08-04 16:04 ` [PATCH 08/10] powerpc: use iommu_num_pages function in IOMMU code Joerg Roedel
2008-08-04 16:04 ` [PATCH 09/10] alpha: " Joerg Roedel
2008-08-04 16:04 ` [PATCH 10/10] sparc64: " Joerg Roedel
2008-08-04 21:28   ` David Miller
2008-08-05  1:09     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-05  2:04     ` FUJITA Tomonori [this message]
2008-08-05  7:49     ` Joerg Roedel
2008-08-05  8:23       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-05  1:08 ` [PATCH 0/10] introduce generic iommu_num_pages function Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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