From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751448AbYJSLMS (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:12:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750928AbYJSLMI (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:12:08 -0400 Received: from 8bytes.org ([88.198.83.132]:34350 "EHLO 8bytes.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750878AbYJSLMH (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:12:07 -0400 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:12:03 +0200 From: Joerg Roedel To: David Woodhouse Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fenghua.yu@intel.com, tony.luck@intel.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, andreas.herrmann3@amd.com, joseph.cihula@intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, tglx@linutronix.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] iommu-2.6.git tree Message-ID: <20081019111203.GB29705@8bytes.org> References: <1224343843.6770.1378.camel@macbook.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1224343843.6770.1378.camel@macbook.infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 04:30:43PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > As previously threatened, I've created an iommu-2.6.git tree: > git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6.git > http://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6.git Is there a specific reason why IOMMU stuff should go to Linus without testing them in the x86 tree before? The DMA layer and IOMMU drivers are an integral component of the architecture and patches for it are best placed in the architecture tree instead of a seperate one, imho. Joerg