linux-kernel - Re: + revert-gregkh-pci-pci-x86-use-generic-pci_enable

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Message-Id: <1207082290.10388.226.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:38:10 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	greg@...ah.com, m.kozlowski@...land.pl,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>
Subject: Re: +
	revert-gregkh-pci-pci-x86-use-generic-pci_enable_resources.patch added to
	-mm tree


On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 10:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:57:15 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com> wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 28 March 2008 05:48:47 pm akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> > > 
> > > The patch titled
> > >      revert gregkh-pci-pci-x86-use-generic-pci_enable_resources
> > > has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
> > >      revert-gregkh-pci-pci-x86-use-generic-pci_enable_resources.patch
> > 
> > OK, I'm not sure where we are with this.  Ben listed arches where
> > the generic pci_enable_resources() should be safe: x86, alpha, and
> > powerpc.  I think we should also include ia64, since I work on that.
> > 
> > If there's no objection to those arches, how should we move forward?
> > Since Andrew put in "revert gregkh-pci" patches rather than just
> > dropping things, I assume the original patches are in Greg KH's tree.
> > 
> > Can we just drop the "revert gregkh" patches for x86, alpha, powerpc,
> > and ia64?
> 
> So powerpc is OK but ppc might not be?

No, ppc should be fine too.

Cheers,
Ben.

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