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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] xen dom0: Add support for the platform_ops hypercall
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:52:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101116155258.GB6535@dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CE1DB0F.8030808@goop.org>

> > Why not just introduce the one we are using (just one right now)
> > and on subsequent patches that enable the functionality add it in this file?
> 
> The main reason is that if some other branch also brings in platform.h
> then its easier to merge two copies of the same file rather than two
> subsets.

Sure, but in linux-next that is just one touch patch and Stephen said
he is Ok with those.

I like doing it (just stick in those that we use), b/c that way you have
an excellent view of when this feature went in the code and the relevant
git commits to blame.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-16 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-11 23:58 [PATCH 0/3] Xen Microcode update driver for 2.6.38 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-11-11 23:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] xen dom0: Add support for the platform_ops hypercall Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-11-15 15:48   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-11-16  1:14     ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-11-16 15:52       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2010-11-11 23:58 ` [PATCH 2/3] xen: add CPU microcode update driver Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-11-15 15:59   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-11-16  1:16     ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-11-11 23:58 ` [PATCH 3/3] xen/microcode: partially enable even for non-privileged kernels Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-11-15 16:02   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-11-16  1:17     ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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