From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [GIT/PATCH v5] xen network backend driver Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:23:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110314.132355.226777213.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1300112879.17339.2162.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <1300128035.2584.6.camel@bwh-desktop> <1300131040.32696.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1300131040.32696.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com Cc: bhutchings@solarflare.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, jeremy@goop.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, romieu@fr.zoreil.com, shemminger@vyatta.com, mirqus@gmail.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org From: Ian Campbell Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:30:40 +0000 > On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 18:40 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> I know you have asked for this to be pulled, in order to retain its >> history, but I'm not sure that David Miller will do this unless the >> driver is at least buildable at each stage in the history. (However, >> given that the driver wouldn't be enabled before it's added, I'm not >> sure it matters in this case.) > > I think it should be, at least from the second commit onwards (modulo > any mistakes made in the past). I don't want to retain all of that history, there are so many broken points in the history that the only thing you can do is go back and add Kconfig commits to depend the driver upon BROKEN, and that in effect changes the history devalueing it even further. I just want one patch that adds the driver in it's most current state, and that's all. Thanks.