linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] PCI-X/PCI-Express read control interfaces

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Message-Id: <20070515123721.1bfb02a3.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 15 May 2007 12:37:21 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Peter Oruba" <peter.oruba@....com>
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, cramerj@...el.com, john.ronciak@...el.com,
	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com, rolandd@...co.com, halr@...taire.com,
	linux-driver@...gic.com,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] PCI-X/PCI-Express read control interfaces

On Tue, 15 May 2007 13:50:27 +0200
"Peter Oruba" <peter.oruba@....com> wrote:

> This patch set introduces a PCI-X / PCI-Express read byte count control 
> interface. Instead of letting every driver to directly read/write to PCI 
> config space for that, an interface is provided. The interface functions then 
> can be used for quirks since some PCI bridges require that read byte count 
> values are set by the BIOS and left unchanged by device drivers.

Some of the patches were wordwrapped, which I fixed.

The way we would merge a feature like this is

- get maintainers to review-and-ack the change

- merge the core patch into Greg's PCI tree and later into
  mainline.

- Once the base infrastructure is in mainline, feed the per-driver
  changes into the tree via the appropriate maintainers.

This takes, umm, months and consumes quite a bit of my time.  I'm becoming
inclined just to slam stuff like this straight in as you've proposed, but
for now, let's play the game - I split the patches up appropriately.  I
don't think there's any particular urgency behind this, is there?

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