From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dan Williams" Subject: Re: [GIT PULL, resend] async_tx/dmaengine update for 2.6.29 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:45:02 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20090112121539.GA6058@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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, "David S. Miller" To: "Herbert Xu" Return-path: Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.175]:6264 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751936AbZALRpE (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:45:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090112121539.GA6058@gondor.apana.org.au> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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]. Regards, Dan [1]: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=649274d993212e7c23c0cb734572c2311c200872