From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jay Cliburn Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] atl1: divide and modernize Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 12:12:17 -0600 Message-ID: <20080101121217.09337d8a@osprey.hogchain.net> References: <1199154173-4058-1-git-send-email-jacliburn@bellsouth.net> <20080101175839.GA25201@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Chris Snook To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from fmailhost04.isp.att.net ([204.127.217.104]:45463 "EHLO fmailhost04.isp.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755244AbYAASRU (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jan 2008 13:17:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080101175839.GA25201@infradead.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 17:58:40 +0000 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 08:22:27PM -0600, Jay Cliburn wrote: > > The first two patches submitted in this patchset accomplish the > > relocation by movng the atl1 driver -- lock, stock, and barrel -- > > over to drivers/net/atlx, then splitting out shareable functions > > and definitions. Some transitory hackery will be present until the > > atl2 merge. Please overlook it for now. > How much shared code is going to be there in the end? Unless it's a > lot I fear that the maintaince burden far outweights the benefit of > having shared code. Christoph, I'm not working on the atl2 merge other than to make accommodations for it within atl1. I've added Chris Snook to the cc list; he's working on atl2. Jay