From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751726Ab1GOPjW (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:39:22 -0400 Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:23008 "EHLO acsinet15.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750890Ab1GOPjV (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:39:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:37:21 -0400 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: Jesse Barnes Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, konrad@kernel.org Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH v6] xen pci backend driver. Message-ID: <20110715153721.GA7512@dumpdata.com> References: <1303333640-5994-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> <20110425115850.48b7d254@jbarnes-desktop> <20110527152220.GA10031@dumpdata.com> <20110531100040.60ade056@jbarnes-desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110531100040.60ade056@jbarnes-desktop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090207.4E205EBB.00DB:SCFMA922111,ss=1,re=-4.000,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Jesse, > > > > Xen has a drivers/xen directory. In the past we have put some of the > > "backends" in there, such as the SWIOTLB one. Perhaps some of it (or all?) > > of this driver should go in there? If you are OK with this I can do it > > that way and start chasing folks to review this driver? > > Yeah, I'm fine with that. Each arch typically has a chunk of PCI code > under arch/ anyway (some more than others), so doing it that way is ok > with me. > > > > Figuring out some way to preserve the git history is probably a good > > > idea, assuming it's not too much of a mess. If it is, a more > > > > I tried to keep it clean.. Most of the stuff is from me thought so I might > > as well just squash it in one. > > Yeah that's up to you; presumably you just want to preserve the useful > parts of the history, or maybe just make the initial changelog big > enough to include all the important bits you've learned over the > years. :) Hey Jesse, I reposted it (fixed a bug, added a feature, and moved them to drivers/xen) here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/12/299 And I've coalesced the git history a bit to clump all the cleanpatch, incremental features, etc in one big piece. Made it from 50 down to 18 patches. They are in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git devel/xen-pciback-0.6.2 What are your thoughts about it?