From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ravinandan Arakali" Subject: RE: Patch submission for S2io Xframe driver to 2.6 kernel Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:13:48 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <002b01c4a57e$84da0700$a010100a@S2IOtech.com> References: <41597DA4.5040200@pobox.com> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , , , Return-path: To: "'Jeff Garzik'" In-Reply-To: <41597DA4.5040200@pobox.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi Jeff, Randy, We are sorry about that. We will split the first patch into multiple smaller patches and resubmit them one-by-one. We appreciate all your patience. Regards, Ravi -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:jgarzik@pobox.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:05 AM To: ravinandan.arakali@s2io.com Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com; leonid.grossman@s2io.com; raghavendra.koushik@s2io.com; rapuru.sriram@s2io.com Subject: Re: Patch submission for S2io Xframe driver to 2.6 kernel Ravinandan Arakali wrote: > Hi, > Attached are the updated patches. It is designed to work on the latest > kernel. Also, this time the submission is split to 3 patches(they need > to applied in the order mentioned below). > > s2io_styling_level1 - Contains > a. styling related, function name changes. > b. fix for 32-bit systems. > c. modified Transmit descriptor allocation > strategy. > d. miscellaneous fixes. When we say "separate logical changes", we mean it :) This means that your level1 patch should be split into at least 4 patches. Second, send each patch in a separate email, as described in http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html (and Documentation/SubmittingPatches) rather than sending as a tarball. Jeff