From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751417AbXBVFsO (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:48:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751420AbXBVFsO (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:48:14 -0500 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:36703 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751417AbXBVFsM (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:48:12 -0500 Message-ID: <45DD2E9E.5030601@goop.org> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:48:14 -0800 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Chris Wright , Zachary Amsden , Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [patch 18/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: Some generic early printk & boot console fixups References: <20070221205254.169835700@goop.org> <20070221205323.842917348@goop.org> <20070221191047.8d21acaa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070221191047.8d21acaa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > hm, this patch series seems to have gone out of its way to cause problems. > > This particular (pathetically changelogged) patch is already in my tree, > only in a later, much more comprehensive form. Similarly the HVC changes > were already in Rusty's stuff and were supposed to be merged by Paulus, but > haven't been yet. > > Can we just drop this one? Does the Xen work actually depend on it? Well, some form of the hvc patches is needed to get a console. I'll rationalize them with respect to Gerd and Rusty's latest patches, but I did want to make the series stand on its own rather than have external dependencies on unmerged patches. J