From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [GIT PULL, resend] async_tx/dmaengine update for 2.6.29 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:16:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090112.131632.119282940.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090112121539.GA6058@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hskinnemoen@atmel.com, maciej.sosnowski@intel.com, g.liakhovetski@gmx.de, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org, s.hauer@pengutronix.de To: dan.j.williams@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36777 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753229AbZALVQc (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:16:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "Dan Williams" Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:45:02 -0700 > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Dan Williams wrote: > >> > >> net/core/dev.c | 149 +------ > >> net/ipv4/tcp.c | 5 +- > >> net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 2 +- > >> net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 2 +- > >> net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 2 +- > > > > Wouldn't it be better for these changes to go through the net > > tree? > > > > It was awkward to separate the reformatting of the core api from its > users. In this exceptional case these changes were limited to areas > inside #ifdef CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE/CONFIG_NET_DMA. > > In general, Maciej and I send purely incremental patches through the > net tree [1]. Yes, I think in this case it didn't make much sense to send the changes via the net tree.