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Message-ID: <7c86c4470803111610s4a017835s8998d72e44acad3f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:10:41 -0700 From: "stephane eranian" <eranian@...glemail.com> To: "Greg KH" <gregkh@...e.de> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Robert Richter" <robert.richter@....com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] perfmon x86 infra(take 2): add AMD Northbridge PCI Id Greg, On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:50:36AM -0700, stephane eranian wrote: > > Greg, > > > > Ingo suggested I send ou the following patch which adds a PCI ID > > for AMD Barcelona Northbridge. This is used by the perfmon initialization > > code on this platform. > > > > Please apply to your tree. > > We are trying to not add pci ids that are only used in one place within > the kernel. Why can't the perfomon init code just add this value to > their code? > I thought you would want a central place where all PCI ids are defined. But if you prefer not, then so be it. I'll put it into the perfmon code. > Or make this part of the perfmon patch itself, if you really must have > it. No need to add it to the kernel if there are no in-tree users, > right? > I am starting to push perfmon patches upstream. So you should expect patches which *currently* have no in-tree users. You have to start from somewhere, right? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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