linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docbook: fix fatal rapidio yet again (and more to come)

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Message-Id: <20080430151149.063920cf.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:11:49 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"\"Zhang Wei\" rdunlap@...otime.net" <Wei.Zhang@...escale.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	mporter@...nel.crashing.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docbook: fix fatal rapidio yet again (and more to come)

On Thu, 1 May 2008 08:09:24 +1000 Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Andrew Morton writes:
> 
> > > Odd.  I thought Paul had picked up a docbook RapidIO patch from you in  
> > > the latest merge round.
> > > 
> > 
> > Well it's more than "a" patch.  The six-week-old patch series is:
> > 
> > rapidio-add-memory-mapping-driver-to-rapidio.patch
> > rapidio-add-rapidio-space-allocation-bitmap-arithmetic.patch
> > rapidio-add-fsl-rapidio-controller-memory-ops-functions.patch
> > rapidio-add-the-rapidio-master-port-maintance-and-doorbell-window-to-space-resources.patch
> > rapidio-add-rapidio-proc-fs-for-memory-mapping-debugging.patch
> > rapidio-add-the-memory-mapping-support-in-rionet-driver.patch
> > rapidio-fix-docbook-references.patch
> > rapidio-fix-kernel-doc-problems.patch
> 
> What happened is that you (Andrew) sent them on to me pretty much
> unexamined.  I took a look at them and dropped one of them because it
> created a new /proc file.  I asked Kumar to look at them and he had
> issues with another three of the patches, and dropping those meant
> that all the following ones (including the fix-kernel-doc one)
> wouldn't apply, so I dropped them too.  I applied the rest and sent
> them to Linus.
> 
> > (seems that I forgot to cc Jeff on the rionet change too).
> 
> Yeah.  I nearly dropped that one too.  I probably should have. :)
> 
> > Oh well.  If nobody puts their hand up in the next 24 hours or so I'll just
> > send it all in to Linus.
> 
> Please don't.  At this stage I think the best thing is for Kumar to
> talk to Zhang Wei (they both work for Freescale, so that should be
> possible in theory :) and get him to rework the remaining patches as
> required for inclusion in 2.6.27.

Just to be clear, the docbook changes shouldn't wait for 2.6.27.
There's no need for that.

---
~Randy
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