linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] ibmebus: Remove bus match/probe/remove functions

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Message-Id: <200709251629.52376.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:29:51 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Cc:	Joachim Fenkes <fenkes@...ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Klein <tklein@...ibm.com>,
	Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@...ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <pmac@....ibm.com>,
	Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>,
	Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] ibmebus: Remove bus match/probe/remove functions

On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Joachim Fenkes wrote:
> ibmebus_{,un}register_driver() are replaced by dummy functions because
> ibmebus is temporarily unusable in this transitional state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joachim Fenkes <fenkes@...ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.c |  199 ++---------------------------------------
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 193 deletions(-)
> 

Great diffstat!

The description makes it sound like a git-bisect would get broken
by this patch, which should never happen. If the patch indeed
ends up with a broken kernel, it would be better to merge it with
the later patch that fixes the code again.

	Arnd <><
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