From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/17] IB/Verbs: IB Management Helpers Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 09:51:45 -0600 Message-ID: <20150408155145.GA25178@obsidianresearch.com> References: <5523CCD5.6030401@profitbricks.com> <5525132F.1020004@talpey.com> <552521EE.5060206@profitbricks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Tom Talpey , Roland Dreier , Sean Hefty , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Hal Rosenstock , Tom Tucker , Steve Wise , Hoang-Nam Nguyen , Christoph Raisch , Mike Marciniszyn , Eli Cohen , Faisal Latif , Upinder Malhi , Trond Myklebust , "J. Bruce Fields" , "David S. Miller" , Ira Weiny , PJ Waskiewicz , Tatyana Nikolova , Or Gerlitz , Jack Morgenstein Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <552521EE.5060206-EIkl63zCoXaH+58JC4qpiA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 02:41:18PM +0200, Michael Wang wrote: > I think no one can have the access to all these hardware, so we can > only depends on those who accidentally have one to help the testing, > but it's still far from that stage.. I have seen other patches in this style use the compiler to do the check, if the patch doesn't change the compiled output then it is obviously OK. Some careful use of macros might make that possible, but it is a fair amount of work. However, that may be the only way to get something this invasive applied, especially since we've already seen mistakes in the manual transforms :| Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html