linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/21] MSI rework

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Date:	Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:17:23 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	daniel.e.wolstenholme@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/21] MSI rework

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 15:08 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:02:16AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > > i.e.  First the simple bug fixes that should purely be restructure of
> > > > msi.c with no affect on anything outside of it.
> > > > 
> > > > And then get into the architecture enhancements.
> > > 
> > > I agree, care to break these down into a smaller series of patches that
> > > can go into -mm for testing?
> > 
> > I don't see the point in breaking the serie... you can bisect half way
> > through if necessary... it's made of small patches that are done, afaik,
> > in such a way that the whole thing should still work at any level in the
> > serie.
> > 
> > The serie just expresses the dependency between them.
> 
> Ok, then which patches in the series should be acceptable to take right
> now for 2.6.22?  The "clean up the BUG" ones?

The series is already very verbose, I don't think I can split most of
them any smaller without producing an unbuildable kernel.

I think 1 up to and including 11 are safe as houses, they shouldn't have
any effect other than to clean up the code.

The rest make functional changes, but they're all quite small, self
contained, and easily bisectable. I'd certainly like Eric to have a look
at them, but at some point I think we're just going to have to bite the
bullet and merge them, and see what we get in the way of bug reports.

cheers

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